Pretense - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|prɪˈtens|
Brit.
|prɪˈtens|
noun
- the act of giving a false appearance (syn: pretence, pretending, simulation)
- pretending with intention to deceive (syn: pretence)
- imaginative intellectual play (syn: make-believe, pretence)
- a false or unsupportable quality (syn: pretence, pretension)
- an artful or simulated semblance (syn: guise, pretence, pretext)
- pretending with intention to deceive (syn: pretence)
- imaginative intellectual play (syn: make-believe, pretence)
- a false or unsupportable quality (syn: pretence, pretension)
- an artful or simulated semblance (syn: guise, pretence, pretext)
Extra examples
We tried to keep up the pretense that everything was fine.
Their indifference is merely pretense.
A pretence was at hand to justify the most violent proceedings.
...there was an immediate outbreak of paper shuffling and a pretense of work when the supervisor passed through the room...
...a discussion on some hot-button social issues in which any pretense to civility quickly gave way to intransigence and scurrility...
He spoke without artifice or pretense.
Tollitt made no pretense of being surprised.
Abandoning any pretense at politeness, they ran for the door.
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