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pretence

Nouns

• (n) a false or unsupportable quality pretension, pretense,
• (n) an artful or simulated semblance
  • under the guise of friendship he betrayed them
  guise, pretext, pretense,
• (n) pretending with intention to deceive dissembling, feigning, pretense,
• (n) imaginative intellectual play make-believe, pretense,
• (n) the act of giving a false appearance
  • his conformity was only pretending
  pretending, pretense, feigning, simulation,

Synonyms

pretension pretense guise pretext dissembling feigning make-believe pretending simulation

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