pretender
— Noun
– English
~ 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)
pretentious
— Adjective
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~ intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat"
pretentious
— Adjective
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~ (of a display) tawdry or vulgar
pretentious
— Adjective
– English
~ making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"
pretentiously
— Adverb
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~ in a pretentious manner; "this author writes pretentiously"
pretentiousness
— Noun
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~ lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
pretentiousness
— 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)
preterist
— Noun
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~ a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) have already been fulfilled
preterit
— Noun
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~ a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense
preterite
— Noun
– English
~ a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense
preterition
— Noun
– English
~ suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted