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Noun: pretence pri'ten(t)s Usage: Brit, Cdn (=pretense)
- The act of giving a false appearance
"his conformity was only pretence"; "his conformity was only pretence" - pretense [N. Amer], pretending, simulation, feigning - Pretending with intention to deceive
- pretense [N. Amer], feigning, dissembling - Imaginative intellectual play
- pretense [N. Amer], make-believe - A false or unsupportable quality
- pretension, pretense [N. Amer] - An artful or simulated semblance
"under the pretence of friendship he betrayed them"; "under the pretence of friendship he betrayed them" - guise, pretense [N. Amer], pretext
Derived forms: pretences Type of: artificiality, color [US], colour [Brit, Cdn], deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation, gloss, imagery, imagination, imaging, mental imagery, misrepresentation, semblance Encyclopedia: Pretence |