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Synonyms for pretence
pre·tence
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
pretence
Synonyms:
excuse, pretext, fabrication, simulation, cloak, mask, color, show, garb, plea, assumption, make believe, outside show, pretensionAntonyms:
verity, reality, truth, simplicity, candor, guilelessness, openness, veritableness, actuality, fact
Princeton's WordNet
pretension, pretense, pretencenoun
a false or unsupportable quality
Synonyms:
largeness, pretending, pretext, simulation, pretense, pretension, feigning, pretentiousness, make-believe, guise, dissemblingguise, pretense, pretence, pretextnoun
an artful or simulated semblance
"under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"
Synonyms:
pretending, pretext, simulation, pretense, pretension, feigning, guise, make-believe, stalking-horse, dissemblingpretense, pretence, feigning, dissemblingnoun
pretending with intention to deceive
Synonyms:
dissimulation, pretending, deceit, pretext, pretension, pretense, guise, feigning, make-believe, simulation, deception, dissemblingpretense, pretence, make-believenoun
imaginative intellectual play
Synonyms:
pretend, pretending, pretext, pretension, pretense, guise, feigning, make-believe, simulation, dissemblingpretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigningnoun
the act of giving a false appearance
"his conformity was only pretending"
Synonyms:
pretending, pretext, pretension, pretense, guise, feigning, computer simulation, make-believe, simulation, model, dissembling
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
pretencenoun
Synonyms:
[Written also Pretense.] show (to conceal a thing to be done), false appearance, mask, color, simulation, affectation, cant, PRETEXT, clap-trappretencenoun
Synonyms:
subterfuge, evasion, excuse
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#476 | model | |
#696 | color | |
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#4317 | simulation | |
#5519 | mask | |
#7150 | assumption | |
#8557 | excuse | |
#12310 | fabrication | |
#12702 | plea | |
#13188 | pretend | |
#15524 | deception | |
#21182 | cloak | |
#22910 | pretending | |
#30154 | deceit | |
#30656 | guise | |
#35247 | garb | |
#35820 | pretext | |
#48205 | pretense | |
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#94963 | usurpation | |
#105408 | feigning | |
#169441 | dissembling | |
#175168 | pretentiousness | |
#176365 | dissimulation | |
#189976 | largeness |
How to use pretence in a sentence?
A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.
People do not relate to softness anymore - in talk or under the guise of misunderstanding - they seem satisfied when they have proved to themselves that softness was feigned or blatant pretence and they were right in thinking hard and ugly thoughts of sarcasm, spite or other hurtful intentions
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Everyone is operating under the pretence that editing and streamlining for long enough will actually produce a coherent and short text with clearly defined alternatives for ministers to review.
Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
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