Defenition of the word pretense
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Defenition of the word pretense
- pretending with intention to deceive
- an imaginative pretence
- the act of pretending
- a false or unsupportable quality
- the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"
- an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"
- imaginative intellectual play
- the act of giving a false appearance
- an artful or simulated semblance
Synonyms for the word pretense
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- affectation
- airs
- charade
- deceit
- deception
- dissembling
- facade
- feigning
- make-believe
- posing
- posturing
- pretence
- pretending
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- sham
- simulation
Similar words in the pretense
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- pretense
- pretense's
- pretenses
Hyponyms for the word pretense
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- affectation
- affectedness
- appearance
- bluff
- hypocrisy
- lip service
- make-believe
- mannerism
- masquerade
- pose
- pretend
- pretext
- show
- stalking-horse
Hypernyms for the word pretense
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- artificiality
- color
- colour
- deceit
- deception
- dissembling
- dissimulation
- gloss
- imagery
- imagination
- imaging
- mental imagery
- misrepresentation
- semblance
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