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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | make-believe |
| Type of | simulation, pretence, feigning, pretending, pretense |
it was just pretend.
pretend::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | make, make believe |
| Type of | act, represent, play |
| Has types | go through the motions |
| Verb group | dissemble, affect, sham, feign |
pretend::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | affect, dissemble, feign, sham |
| Type of | misrepresent, belie |
| Has types | take a dive, mouth, talk through one's hat, play possum, fake, bull, bullshit |
| Verb group | make believe, make |
| Derivation | pretender, pretending, pretense |
Examples of pretend
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Given all that, the 2010 feats featured below don't pretend to be comprehensive.
From the thenewstribune.com
Let's accept that for what it is, but not pretend that he's some sort of savant.
From the forbes.com
Rupy knew her chickie couldn't really use this furniture, but she could pretend.
From the latimes.com
Hold the iPhone on each end and pretend the device itself is the steering wheel.
From the ocregister.com
This is so that he can cut things off in 1925 and pretend the data goes to 2000.
From the independent.co.uk
They pretend they've long been there, instead of having been knocked up in days.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
I don't want the pretend stuff, I don't want the people shaking their jewellery.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Should motor cyclists pretend to be speedway riders too, what a din they create.
From the independent.co.uk
Folks in Southern California pretend those negative stories are about the north.
From the sacbee.com
- Make-believe: imagined as in a play; "the make-believe world of theater"; "play money"; "dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish"
- Feign: make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
- Make-believe: the enactment of a pretense; "it was just pretend"
- Dissemble: behave unnaturally or affectedly; "She's just acting"
- Put forward a claim and assert right or possession of; "pretend the title of King"
- Guess: put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation; "I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again"; "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong"
- Make: represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like; "She makes like an actress"
- Profess: state insincerely; "He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt"; "She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber"; "She pretends to be an expert on wine"
- (pretended) assumed: adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"
