pretend
— Verb
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～ represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like; "She makes like an actress"
pretend
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～ behave unnaturally or affectedly; "She's just acting"
pretend
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～ put forward a claim and assert right or possession of; "pretend the title of King"
pretend
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～ state insincerely; "He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt"; "She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber"; "She pretends to be an expert on wine"
pretend
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～ make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
pretend
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～ put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation; "I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again"; "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong"
pretend
— Adjective
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～ imagined as in a play; "the make-believe world of theater"; "play money"; "dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish"
pretended
— Adjective
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～ adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"
pretender
— Noun
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～ a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title)
pretender
— Noun
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～ a person who makes deceitful pretenses
pretender
— Noun
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～ a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
pretending
— Noun
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～ the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"
pretense
— Noun
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～ a false or unsupportable quality
pretense
— Noun
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～ pretending with intention to deceive
pretense
— Noun
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～ the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"
pretense
— Noun
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～ imaginative intellectual play
pretense
— Noun
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～ an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"
pretension
— Noun
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～ the advancing of a claim; "his pretension to the crown"; "the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort"
pretension
— Noun
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～ a false or unsupportable quality
pretension
— Noun
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～ the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)