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.
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61. Rune had never pretended an emotional attachment to her - in fact quite the opposite!
62. Jim picked up a salt shaker and pretended it was a microphone.
63. As the bedroom door closed, Googol adopted a peeved expression and pretended great interest in a fingernail.
64. Afterward, they held hands and waved at people and pretended not to know the things they knew.
65. Mamet has never pretended to be a long-haul writer and sees time the way the early Elizabethans did, as a destroyer.
66. He pretended to his family and friends that his doddering gait was due to old soccer injuries.
67. He pretended to be asleep for the entire two hour ride.
68. Was our friend Sir Vivien as rich as he pretended?
69. Fakhru pulled out his own key and pretended to be opening the box just above that of the bank.
70. Had she pretended to wait on everybody at some private view, then walked out through the door?
71. Monarchs pretended to close their eyes to it while they shared the loot and then honored the pirate heroes.
72. He pretended to rub the oft-offended cheek,[http://sentencedict.com/pretended.html] and everyone laughed as Sabina grinned and went back to Mel.
73. Dennis pretended to struggle with two pages he held together with his two forefingers.
74. And they had not come, or they had sat across from him and pretended that every-thing was fine.
75. I thought I could just leave the door unlocked after having pretended to lock it.
76. She pretended she was making her own flower garden, and picked large red flowers to push into the ground.
77. If she had really been as indifferent as she had pretended to be, then she wouldn't have reacted at all.
78. Well, I pretended to love Miss Ingram to make you madly jealous.
79. I pretended not to see her(sentencedict.com), and carried on walking down the street.
80. I pretended not to hear, but he shouted a message that he would return.
81. The old woman had only pretended to be so kind; she was in reality a wicked witch.
82. I pretended to read the note a moment longer, giving myself a chance to come up with something.
83. Donald said, what can one do, and we both pretended to shrug it off, to hurry away.
84. Fans turned up to gigs in ridiculous anoraks, sold fanzines with names like Frothy Pop and pretended they were carefree 18-year-olds.
85. Stepmother Edna pretended that no problem existed, washing out the blood from my clothes with astounding tolerance.
86. She pretended to quibble with a phrase or two, then looked questioningly to her mother.
87. Jessie Kfubock called out and waved for her to join them, but Marie pretended not to have heard.
88. A private citizen, secretly acting for the clergy, had pretended he was buying the land for non-religious purposes.
89. He got drunk that night, though not as drunk as he pretended to be.
90. He watched the sky and pretended he was a winner.
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