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.
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211) We have an unspoken collected pact to pretend climate change wasn't happening.
212) Clementine : Come back and make up a good - bye, at least. Let's pretend we had one.
213) You, sir, must pretend in this disdainful manner to court me?
214) Stay calm and pretend you're looking over a microwave oven.
215) Let's pretend we're sailing down the Rhine River on a boat.
216) I shall lie low and pretend to know nothing about it.
217) People pretend that Father Christmas brings presents to children on Christmas Eve.
218) He'll lie low and pretend he knows nothing about it.
219) But I don't have to pretend that Tom Townsend's a nice guy.
220) An impostor could not pretend to have a good search engine.
221) I do not pretend tha t my protestations should acquit me.
222) If you hide away your problems and pretend that they don't exist they will just continue to mount up.
223) So write another love song and pretend that nothing's wrong.
223) Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and build good sentences.
224) I an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men is sure of.
225) We won't pretend we savour the prospect of a month in prison.
226) It was dishonest of the boy to pretend that the penknife was his own.
227) Papa would pretend to gobble, to emphasize this " excellence. ".
228) In early stages of design, pretend the interface is magic.
229) Except for the felicitous pretense of deafness I had not tried to pretend anything.
230) Don't cheat. Don't lie. Don't pretend. Don't try to buy your into the Kingdom of God.
231) Men may no longer pretend that the quest for disarmament is a sign of weakness.
232) Remember , them love cash, so only pretend like you a goldmine and you're in the club.
233) We clearly endorse different ideologies and it would be idle to pretend otherwise.
234) You were supposed to pretend to be in a seizure and we go in there, right?
235) She overlooked his offensiveness and tried to pretend nothing had happened.
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