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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91. He gave me a nonplussed look, so I gave up on the shallow pretence that I could speak any Turkish and, instead, went to get my phrasebook to show him the relevant words for "bicycle shop".
92. Which devour widows'houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
93. I dislike people that act on false pretence and that our self centered.
94. They are making a pretence of equity with serious faces.
95. They are making a pretence of equity with serious faces, as players might.
96. So let's pretence for starters which we still need unchanging income.
97. He was sent to prison for obtaining money by false pretence.
98. Davis asked, making a playful pretence at seizing Castle's briefcase.
99. Zhou Yilun is very bold to abandon restraint, face to the most primitive and true instinct of human, and the desire, expansion, putridity and pretence that growing from instinct.
100. No one was deceived by his pretence of professional activity.
101. Precisely how these marriages are distinct from hiring a sex worker, I am unclear – but the distinction at least keeps up the pretence that the new sexual culture doesn't violate religious order.
102. He is send to prison for obtain money by false pretence.
103. His followers pressed him, telling him his magic was all a pretence.
104. The pomposity, the pretence, the downright idiocy: all are gagging for the Dada treatment.
105. " I'll see you later, " he said , with a pretence of disturbance at being interrupted.sentencedict.com
106. If she takes against someone, she makes no attempt at pretence.
107. It is wrong to ensure the lawsuit false pretence as the swindle crime, though it has some characters of swindle crime.
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