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pretense

noun

1 pretense

The act of giving a false appearance.

synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretending, simulation.

Roget 882: ostentation, display, show, flourish, parade, etalage [Fr.], pomp, array, state, solemnity; dash, splash, splurge, glitter, ... show more

Roget 544: falsehood, falseness; falsity, falsification; deception etc. 545; untruth etc. 546; guile; lying etc. ... show more

Roget 884: boasting etc. v.; boast, vaunt, crake; pretense, pretensions; puff, puffery; flourish, fanfaronade; gasconade; ... show more

Polish: symulanctwo, pozoracja, pozoranctwo, symulacja

2 pretense

Pretending with intention to deceive.

synonyms: dissembling, feigning, pretence.

3 pretense

Imaginative intellectual play.

synonyms: make-believe, pretence.

4 pretense

A false or unsupportable quality.

synonyms: pretence, pretension.

Roget 855: affectation; affectedness etc. adj.; acting a part etc. v.; pretense etc. (falsehood) 544, (ostentation) 882; boasting ... show more

5 pretense

An artful or simulated semblance.

synonyms: guise, pretence, pretext.

Roget 617: pretext, pretense, pretension, plea; allegation, advocation; ostensible motive, ostensible ground, ostensible reason, phony reason; excuse etc. (vindication) 937; ... show more

Roget 546: untruth, falsehood, lie, story, thing that is not, fib, bounce, crammer, taradiddle, whopper; jhuth.    forgery, fabrication, invention; ... show more

Dutch: mom, voorkomen, uiterlijk, dekmantel, pretext, schijngrond, schijnreden, smoes, voorwendsel


Moby thesaurus: acting, affectation, affectedness, air, airs, airs and graces, alibi, apology, appearance, appurtenance, artificiality, attitudinizing, authority, birthright, blind, bluff, bluffing, charade, cheating, claim ... show more.

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