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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31. He had never made much pretence at hiding it.
32. Gummer makes no pretence of objectivity in his text.
33. Occasionally, they drop all pretence of fairness.
34. For all her pretence, she loved books.
35. Mr Tellwright made no pretence of concealing his satisfaction.
36. What effort is required to keep up the pretence?
37. Strictly speaking, therefore, impalement and the use of an escutcheon of pretence is marshalling at its simplest.
38. Designing with tradition is not a pretence for re-creating the old.
39. Those who preferred the pretence of business immersed themselves in a book and, from time to time, made an ostentatious note.
40. The kind of love he wanted she could never give, and had never made any pretence of.
41. It is not an evil, conscious pretence of deliberate black lies.
42. Wilson asked Carly out to dinner, on the pretence that he wanted to talk to her about business.
43. No other hypocrites in Shakespeare gain so much so quickly, so easily, and can afford to drop pretence so fast.
44. He made a great pretence of studying her ticket, turning it over, then turning it back.
45. Adolescents are very sensitive about pretence, hypocrisy or deceit on the part of their parents.
46. By now Miller had dropped all pretence at knowing where he was, and the night was exceedingly dark.
47. But the hereditary peers provide a ballast which distorts any pretence at representativeness.
48. For six weeks, Charlotte had sustained the pretence that her suspicions about Maurice could somehow be stifled.
49. It can even be converted into sudden laughter, when one realizes how absurd the pretence is.
50. My friends, mostly similarly ignorant, all keep up this absurd pretence, and all beneath the eyes of an expert.
51. Faces were stripped of pretence by the pitiless bombardment of harsh reality.
52. At least Eva had been able to put up a pretence for the past forty-odd years; a social protection for Charles.
53. He asked me questions about Syl and about myself without any pretence at politeness.
54. Beforehand, the pretence that he was interested in putting together a documentary series on psychic phenomena had seemed a good one.
55. He made a sort of feeble pretence of being afraid that he might lose his head.
56. It made no pretence of catering to faddish tastes like vegetarianism or high fibre diets.
57. If only he would drop all this ridiculous pretence, stop acting the fool and raise his game one more time.
58. On the Reach itself,[www.Sentencedict.com] there could be no pretence that this would be an ordinary night.
59. For the pretence hides the fact that in this case the point of law has not been served but unavoidably deserved.
60. Critics could barely keep to the constitutional pretence that the monarch was above political error.
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