Synonym: act, bluff, fake, feign, make believe, sham. Similar words: pretending, pretence, pretentious, pretentiousness, pretext, excrete, foretell, concrete. Meaning: [prɪ'tend] 
n. the enactment of a pretense. v. 1. make believe with the intent to deceive 2. behave unnaturally or affectedly 3. put forward a claim and assert right or possession of 4. put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation 5. represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like 6. state insincerely. adj. imagined as in a play.
n. the enactment of a pretense. v. 1. make believe with the intent to deceive 2. behave unnaturally or affectedly 3. put forward a claim and assert right or possession of 4. put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation 5. represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like 6. state insincerely. adj. imagined as in a play. 
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91) We somehow managed to finish it, but I won't pretend it was easy.
92) It would be disingenuous on our part to pretend ignorance of our book's impact, both in sales and controversy.
93) On some nights, I would pretend the sounds were ocean waves and I was in a mansion on a nameless beach.
93) Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and build good sentences.
94) Therefore it would be rash to pretend to criticize community care plans.
95) But Fred was just a steward, and I had to pretend in a superior way to condescend to him.
96) So he made me pretend I was in a dead faint.
97) You have accepted a compliment gracefully, without trying to pretend you don't deserve it.
98) They would pretend to get pissed and start a fight.
99) But most of us are frightened by our emotions so we like to pretend that rationality Is normal.
100) I like to drive around in my brother's BMW and pretend I'm a rich businessman.
101) Backwards Pretend you are a beginner who has inadvertently forgotten which end of the board is forwards and set sail going backwards.
102) I can not pretend that Mr James's book attains the same degree of enlightenment.
103) But they have paid a high psychological price, coping with the North by trying to pretend thatit does not exist.
104) This does not in fact happen, but in other kinds of social system people do not even pretend that it happens.
105) At the Y, I would pretend he was the body bag.
106) Some of them pretend they're the illegitimate sons of noblemen, and some of them pretend some one else did the murder.
107) He wanted to pretend cool detachment, but his heart was pounding.
108) It is no longer acceptable to pretend to be entertaining clients while overtly pushing your business at them.
109) When it is time to eat, pretend it is a midnight feast and have the food in one of the bedrooms.
110) It wasn't until the party that I knew I couldn't pretend to myself any longer.
111) Take laughing: I have only to titter and, in seconds, the Monster also is rocking with pretend laughter.
112) But she was not the same as them, she could not pretend to be.
113) His first impulse was to turn around and walk away, blank her out, pretend he hadn't even seen.
114) Don't pretend you can't afford to pay me that money back -- you're nothing but a cheat and a liar!
115) What he did wish was to emasculate his opponents, and then to pretend they were coming together as equals.
116) She was simply not intelligent enough to hide her emotions, to pretend to be feeling something she was not.
117) Finding room for the extra athletes may not be as simple as the organising committee would like to pretend.
118) It was her pretend street voice, thicker, her lips popping out.
119) He doesn't criticize the vice-president marketing's expert judgement nor pretend he could do better himself.
120) My films never pretend to be anything but artefacts - they're unnatural, contrived, fashioned, unrealistic, on purpose.
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