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pretense

English

  1. 🔊 the act of giving a false appearance
    “his conformity was only pretending”
  2. 🔊 imaginative intellectual play
  3. 🔊 pretending with intention to deceive
  4. 🔊 an artful or simulated semblance
    “under the guise of friendship he betrayed them”
  5. 🔊 a false or unsupportable quality

Spanish

  1. 🔊 pretenso pretense
  2. 🔊 fingimiento pretense, affectation

Similar words

pretence pretending simulation feigning guise pretence pretext pretension pretence pretence make-believe pretence feigning dissembling acting affectation affectedness air airs airs and graces alibi apology appearance appurtenance