1. Let's cut out the pretense.

2. Pretense invariably impresses only the pretender.

3. The whistle cuts through all fantasy and pretense.

4. Sometimes the best offense is a ghoulish pretense.

5. Tollitt made no pretense of being surprised.

6. Conchie: Leaders have got to lead without pretense

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

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

9. 4 You can't keep up the pretense any longer.

10. Pretense cannot sustain blind power. Dejan Stojanovic 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

24. 4 Under the pretense of authenticity and accuracy, news docudramas take unacceptable license with the truth.

25. Synonyms for Charlatanism include charlatanry, quackery, flimflam, deceit, fraud, imposture, deception, dishonesty, deceitfulness and pretense

26. Restatement: pretense and adversity are inversely proportional; adversity reveals the true nature of all things.

27. Cao Cao is using the pretense of winter hunting to hold the Emperor hostage at Ye City

28. But it will strip away a little pretense and artifice, and maybe even put back a little passion.

29. Now and then, the real priorities and the concealed agenda do break through the pretense of compassion.

30. Seeing through the pretense, my little boy let go of my coat and walked on silently with downcast eyes.

31. John then-and this is the important point-was able to deliver on his early pretense and Big Promise potential.

32. True, her manner could not have been called Boisterously joyful, and indeed she made no pretense of the kind

33. She knew a couple of friends elsewhere who lived together under the pretense of sharing an apartment or duplex.

34. Seeing through the pretense,[Sentencedict.com] my little boy let go of my coat and walked on silently with downcast eyes.

35. “The Japanese have dropped all pretense of religion and turned Christmas into a strictly commercial operation,” reports the Washington Daily Record.

36. Eventually he would turn away, either because he accepted my pretense or because he was not sure it was one.

37. The result is a passionate(Sentencedict.com), deeply informed account that makes no pretense of being a balanced work of history.

38. 24 She knew a couple of friends elsewhere who lived together under the pretense of sharing an apartment or duplex.

39. But Judas’ gesture was only a pretense to identify Jesus to those who had come in the night to arrest him.

40. The hypocrisy is the pretense that the players are scholars whose colleges are competing for the glory of it all.

41. Under the pretense of holding a conference with the Bear, it will approach that animal craftily and eat it up.

42. + 10 Despite all this, her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, only in pretense,’ declares Jehovah.”

43. She can also be insecure, but is very intelligent, despite her fashionable Southern-belle pretense at ignorance and helplessness around men.

44. Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it. Ayn Rand 

45. But the solution would represent such a dramatic reversal of age-old Catholic doctrine as to undermine any pretense of papal infallibility.

46. There is no pretense that anything but sex is being offered, which is just fine for people with louche tastes looking to avoid polite society.

47. Or when an abusive man mistreats his wife and children in private but in public puts on the pretense of being a model family man.

48. Satan still uses religion that makes a pretense of being Christian, moral, and enlightening in order to make people live by his standards rather than God’s.

49. Aristotle had made no secret of his contempt for Alexander's pretense of divinity, and the king had executed Aristotle's grandnephew Callisthenes as a traitor.

50. Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretense of it saps the very foundation of character. James Russell Lowell 

51. Of beggars; hypocrisy, sham, pretense, humbug Not to be confused with: can't – contraction of cannot reCant – withdraw or disavow; revoke, rescind, deny: He reCanted his

52. Synonyms: Affectation; affectedness; mannerism; pose Hypernyms ("Affectation" is a kind of): feigning; pretence; pretending; pretense; simulation (the act of giving a false appearance)

53. An elite group of athletes meeting under the pretense of completing a Blaws (or, since 2016, WLAW), to in reality discuss all things alcohol, CDU & methods of

54. Consumer fraud, as defined by Arizona law, is any deception, unfair act or practice, false statement, false pretense, false promise or misrepresentation made by a seller or advertiser of merchandise

55. Affectation definition, an effort to appear to have a quality not really or fully possessed; the pretense of actual possession: an Affectation of interest in art; Affectation of great wealth

56. These Asides, spoken in an undertone by the characters, allow the audience to know the true feelings and thoughts of these characters rather than the pretense of feeling that they make to others

57. A Charlatan (also called a swindler or mountebank) is a person practicing quackery or some similar confidence trick or deception in order to obtain money, fame, or other advantages via some form of pretense or deception

58. 1. Chiromancy - telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand chirology, palm reading, palmistry fortune telling, soothsaying, foretelling, divination - the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means

59. 15 The time must come when God exposes the wrongness of the claim and pretense of being at the marriage feast “table” as made by Christendom and to execute adverse judgment upon her before the eyes of all onlookers.

60. Sweet alyssum, rock cress, bachelor's buttons, coreopsis, sweet William, foxglove, baby's breath, daylily, iris, red hot poker, coralberry, barberry, Japanese Maple, Deutzia rosea, weigela, and Geranium pretense are just some of the companion plants that look fantastic with Alliums.

61. Artificiality - the quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally unnaturalness - the quality of being unnatural or not based on natural principles staginess, theatricality - an artificial and mannered quality pretence, pretension, pretense - a false or unsupportable quality

62. This page shows answers to the clue Affectation, followed by 4 definitions like “A striving after.”, “Fondness; affection” and “A deliberate pretense or exaggerated display”.Synonyms for Affectation are for example airs, posing and posturing.More synonyms can be found below the puzzle answers.

63. Artificiality: 1 n the quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally Types: staginess , theatricality an artificial and mannered quality pretence , pretense , pretension a false or unsupportable quality Type of: unnaturalness the quality of being unnatural or not based on natural principles

64. Voluntary parting with title or possession of any property by the Insured or others to whom the property may be entrusted (except carriers or other Bailees for hire) if induced to do so by any fraudulent scheme, trick, device or false pretense; l

65. ‘The men in this neighborhood made no pretense about who they thought were Beddable.’ ‘He had trouble with women as equals - women to him were either Beddable or they weren't.’ ‘He was a honey-voiced charmer, as effective with judges as with voters and Beddable women.’

66. Mencken said politics had become an “endless saturnalia of bunk, of bluff, of stupidity, of insincerity, of false virtue, of nonsense, of pretense, of sophistry, of paralogy, of Bamboozlement, of actorial posturing, of strident wind music, of empty words—even, at times, of down-right fraud.”

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68. ‘The men in this neighborhood made no pretense about who they thought were Beddable.’ ‘He had trouble with women as equals - women to him were either Beddable or they weren't.’ ‘He was a honey-voiced charmer, as effective with judges as with voters and Beddable women.’

69. Investigation conducted by NACSUL, the release continues, indicates that the leaders of these groups collect their allotments from the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning under the pretense of targeting projects but pocket these monies for their personal Aggrandizements with no single project or initiative to benefit our vulnerable

70. In some countries governments (the United States and United Kingdom, for example) are placing more emphasis on clarifying whether an individual is self-employed or engaged in disguised employment, often described as the pretense of a contractual intra-business relationship to hide what is otherwise a simple employer-employee relationship.

71. Sneddon, now confronted with the looser-position knew a way out though: the admission of witnesses from the 1993-case. That was certainly not because his own case proved to be anchorless and not reliable but with the pretense to demonstrate the defendant have had a certain modus operandi.

72. Bubbly is a collection of more than 60 effortlessly stunning cocktail recipes featuring the most festive bottle behind the bar—champagne! With bright, seasonal flavors, simple techniques, and no pretense, author and photographer Colleen Jeffers shares her most irresistible sparkling cocktails, alongside quick-trick tips on topics like buying the right bottle of Bubbly, keeping carbonation