Synonym: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, put on, sham. Similar words: pretend, pretending, extended, pretense, pretence, pretentious, apprehended, extended family. Meaning: [prɪ'tendɪd] 
adj. adopted in order to deceive.
adj. adopted in order to deceive. 
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181. I pretended to rub a fleck of grit from one eye.
182. Joe's grandfather is a fanatical racialist, his adoptive father is a tyrant as well as a pretended pious puritan, Bon's father is a selfish and merciless killer.
183. Last time, he even pretended to be a podiatrist in order to fondle and suck a woman's toes at a clothing store.
184. For that matter, everybody knew, but Kat pretended not to for her mother's sake.
185. More often, however, apraxia is not very apparent unless one asks the patient to perform or imitate a pretended action.
186. Both Steele and Freeman pretended to the post of general manager.
187. He never pretended it was a genuflection to anything but commerce.
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