pretense|pretensed|pretenses|pretensing in English

verb

pretend, feign; impersonate; put on a false show, create a false appearance; claim wrongly, make a false assertio

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1. Let's cut out the pretense.

2. Dr. Wilson convinced you to treat this patient under false pretenses.

3. Pretense invariably impresses only the pretender.

4. Inducing someone to part with money or property on false pretenses.

5. The whistle cuts through all fantasy and pretense.

6. Sometimes the best offense is a ghoulish pretense.

7. Tollitt made no pretense of being surprised.

8. Conchie: Leaders have got to lead without pretense

9. You can't keep up the pretense any longer.

10. Abandoning any pretense at politeness, they ran for the door.

11. 4 You can't keep up the pretense any longer.

12. Pretense cannot sustain blind power. Dejan Stojanovic 

13. We need not continue this pretense any longer, Miss Donati.

14. The narcissist adopts a pretense of grandiosity and self-Aggrandizing behavior

15. A canny bureaucratic infighter , Moorer made no pretense of academic subtlety.

16. The satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense.

17. To make a pretense of; feign: Counterfeited interest in the story

18. Arguments were subsumed under the pretense that they had not been heard.

19. The word then took on the figurative sense of hypocrisy, dissimulation, or pretense.

20. The words spat forth with sudden savagery, all pretense of blandness gone.

21. What Feynman hated worse than anything else was intellectual pretense -- phoniness, false sophistication, jargon.

22. Except for the felicitous pretense of deafness I had not tried to pretend anything.

23. Under the pretense of authenticity and accuracy, news docudramas take unacceptable license with the truth.

24. Synonyms for Affectations include air, affectedness, posing, posturing, pretense, pretence, pretension, pretentiousness, superiority and arrogance

25. There was not even a pretense of a free press, freedom of assembly or free speech.