Synonym: dissembling, feigning, guise, make-believe, pretending, pretense, pretension, pretext, simulation. Similar words: pretend, pretense, pretending, pretentious, competence, pretentiousness, pretext, competency. Meaning: [prɪː'tens /'prɪtens] 
n. 1. a false or unsupportable quality 2. an artful or simulated semblance 3. pretending with intention to deceive 4. imaginative intellectual play 5. the act of giving a false appearance.
n. 1. a false or unsupportable quality 2. an artful or simulated semblance 3. pretending with intention to deceive 4. imaginative intellectual play 5. the act of giving a false appearance. 
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61. I stood by the door and she sat there, making no pretence of civility, waiting for me to go.
62. The worst thing about liberal academics is the pretence that they are somehow more open-minded than their opponents.
63. Their hand-in-glove co-operation has destroyed the final pretence of army neutrality in eastern Bosnia.
64. It seems he makes no pretence about his disgusting perversion.
65. And we must avoid dismissing a particular policy wholesale simply because the pretence of it has sometimes been used to justify iniquity.
66. It was only in London they had to keep up the pretence that Buckmaster had nothing to do with his company.
67. Now, though, the New Labour high command seems ready to drop the pretence.
68. In other words, the pretence that research and higher education are inseparable results in driving out higher education.
69. She was strongly aware of his presence, and in the end she couldn't keep up the pretence.
70. How long could she keep up the pretence of being a competent sailor?
71. He adopts Harsnett's premise that possession is a theatrical performance - Edgar continually brings attention to his madness being a pretence.
72. With relief, I abandoned any pretence at being clever and became a mystic assistant labourer.
73. Though we no longer went out together in the evenings, I promised to keep up the pretence that we did.
74. Provided this agreement exists there can be no pretence at a system of monetary base control.
75. After two weeks he could keep up the pretence no longer and decided to tell her the truth.
76. The parent's intention is often to protect so they hide tears and sorrowing putting on a ghastly pretence of cheerfulness.
77. And referee trying to prize them apart, to keep at least the pretence of a fight going.
78. After that all pretence at restraint was gone as David swiftly undressed then reached out and pulled her down on to him.
79. Simulations and games With pupils in lower secondary years their enjoyment of pretence is not yet impaired by age.
80. Simon did well after that but made a pretence of simple good luck to anyone who questioned his apparent good fortune.
81. The government abandoned any pretence of reform.
82. Julie made a pretence to feel for the key.
83. You shouldn't scold him on the slightest pretence.
84. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary.
85. They beguiled him of his right by false pretence.
86. False pretence or us false pretense.
87. His religion was a mere pretence.
88. Under the pretence of lighting a candle,[http://sentencedict.com/pretence.html] she evades him and disappears.
89. Chinese and Indian workers are more likely to skip off work under the false pretence of illness than their French and Mexican counterparts, a new study showed.
90. family depended on his ability to wangle a few dollars occasionally . With this money, they would eat well and dress well for a while , making a pretence of affluence.
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