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pretense::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | dissembling, feigning, pretence |
| Type of | deception, misrepresentation, deceit |
| Has types | stalking-horse, bluff, hypocrisy, lip service, pretext |
| Derivation | pretend, pretentious |
pretense::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | pretence, pretension |
| Type of | artificiality |
| Derivation | pretend |
pretense::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | feigning, pretence, pretending, simulation |
| Type of | deception, deceit, dissimulation, dissembling |
| Has types | mannerism, masquerade, charade, appearance, pose, pretend, affectation, affectedness, show, make-believe |
| Derivation | pretend |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | make-believe, pretence |
| Type of | imagination, mental imagery, imaging, imagery |
Examples of pretense
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The pretense is that a flush trust fund will pay retirees for the next 26 years.
From the dailyherald.com
Why not just cut the pretense and let the union guys vote for you on all issues?
From the sacbee.com
It's a bar that brings all the artsy pretense to the table so you don't have to.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The themes of image and essence, pretense and sincerity, run through his novels.
From the washingtonpost.com
The log-cabin pretense has been a staple of American politics since Abe Lincoln.
From the dailyherald.com
Drawn into a maze of pretense by Theresa and Coolberg, he has lost his bearings.
From the nytimes.com
At least the last supposition has the pretense of safety, and that is important.
From the positivesharing.com
Moreover, any pretense of a storyline has only tangential reference to da Vinci.
From the entertainment.time.com
Everything about him is tough, without pretense or contemporary interpretation.
From the washingtonpost.com
- The act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"
- Pretending with intention to deceive
- Imaginative intellectual play
- Pretension: a false or unsupportable quality
- Guise: an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"
- The third season of the military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 commenced airing on Showtime in the United States on June 25, 1999, concluded on Sky1 in the United Kingdom on March 8, 2000, and contained 22 episodes. ...
- (Pretenses) Cara and Steven's relationship suffers through another unbelievable misunderstanding, and are introduced to Liz's new friend, Abbie Richardson, a former friend of Jessica's.
- A cognitive adaptation to enable learning, pretense relies on the creative use of affordances in the environment, in others, and in oneself to solve problems of training. See implicit pedagogy.
- To cloak, to give a feigned appearance to, to pretend, profess, allege, esp. falsely. Edmund in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe behaves according a to pattern of pretense before his transformation at the climax of the story: "Edmund (who was the next youngest) wanted to laugh and had to ...
