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pretending::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | feigning, pretence, pretense, simulation |
| Type of | dissembling, dissimulation, deceit, deception |
| Has types | make-believe, mannerism, masquerade, pose, pretend, affectation, show, affectedness, appearance, charade |
| Derivation | pretend |
his conformity was only pretending.
Examples of pretending
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You get briefings from people who do for a living what you are pretending to be.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Trash the scanners, fire the TSA and stop pretending everyone's an equal threat.
From the washingtontimes.com
Players moved around the makeshift court pretending they were playing Wisconsin.
From the freep.com
Bryant is in a tizzy, pretending he can't find his three NBA championship rings.
From the dailynews.com
The fraudulent ads attack Fitzgerald, pretending he is an enemy of green causes.
From the heraldtribune.com
It's time to stop pretending carbon trading and carbon taxes are doing any good.
From the economist.com
These guys are just stringing words together and pretending to be authoritative.
From the scienceblogs.com
You know nothing about Jeff Bonser and the fans, so stop pretending that you do.
From the expressandstar.com
Charlie just thinks Martin's pretending to be addled so he can move in with him.
From the couriermail.com.au
- 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"
