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