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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151. The boy had no choice but to force a smile to his lips, fastened as if by thumbtacks at the corners of his mouth, and pretended to be glad to pick up the restaurant tab for these bulimic girls.
152. However much we pretended that Indians and Negroes were subhuman, we really knew that they were God's children too.
153. He was very much enlivened in temper and inclined to whisper , but Hurstwood pretended interest.
154. In 2004, when he pretended to be a fourteen-year-old French boy in the town of Grenoble, a doctor who examined him at the request of authorities concluded that he was, indeed, a teen-ager.
155. The "tiger" hid in a bush, but was caught by policemen and zoo staff, who pretended to anesthetize him.
156. So I pretended everything was fine and tried not to squirm.
157. Zeus pretended to be a prince from a neighboring country and pretended to send the skirt to Clotho.
158. An open foeprove to bead is aster; but a pretended friends worse.
159. He had bursitis, but they pretended he was in perfect health.
160. To gain time, I pretended that I had not heard the question.
161. This is the second time you have pretended to dismiss me.
162. All the same, he wasn't feeling as reckless as he pretended.
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163. Juana sensed his excitement, and she pretended to look away.
164. On the day of the program, Kristi pretended to be sick.
165. She got the job of science teacher by fraudulent means; she pretended she'd studied at university.
166. The acrobat pretended to overbalance and the audience held their breath.
167. The fox pretended to be dead as a ruse to confuse the hunters.
168. The coach pretended not to hear him. There was no way he wanted is worst player in this close playoff game.
169. Fillmore took advantage of the situation to indulge in all sorts of escapades . Though he knew quite well what he was doing he pretended to be still a little daffy.
170. Among the Political tricks were pretended virtue abidance, dissident suppression , seducing and autobiography forging.
171. It is pretended, that I am retarding the cause of emancipation, by the coarseness of my invective, and the precipitancy of my measures.
172. A coach was hereupon sent for, or pretended to be sent for.
173. The fox was very quick-witted and pretended to be sacrosanct .
174. At one point our duplicity, or twoness, was inadvertently revealed, whereupon Joe noisily fled and I pretended to give unsuccessful chase, representing him to be a burglar.
175. He put his finger on the trigger and pretended to shoot a soldier on top of the hay bale.
176. Although he pretended to sympathize, he was laughing in his sleeve.
177. Although he pretended to sympathise, I knew he was laughing up his sleeve.
178. Using the device of a pretended 'translation', which would be bound to stilt in any case, Hemingway can 'poetize' the dialogue as he wishes.
179. He pulled out an imaginary golf club pretended to tee up his and swung.
180. She shed crocodile tears ( ie pretended to be sorry ) when she dismissed him from his job.
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