Synonyms for pretending
pre·tend·ing

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1. pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigningnoun

   the act of giving a false appearance

   "his conformity was only pretending"

   Synonyms:
   pretence, pretext, pretension, pretense, guise, feigning, computer simulation, make-believe, simulation, model, dissembling

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1. List of paraphrases for "pretending":

   pretend, faking, shamming, make-believe, claiming

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1. Renae A. Sauter:

   When pretending starts, growth stops

2. Greta Thunberg:

   Pretending that a law that no one has to follow ... is a law. Pretending that you can be a climate leader and still go on building and subsidizing new fossil fuel infrastructure.

3. Dan Gainor:

   The Brian Williams story shows that NBC/MSNBC doesn't really have standards, brian Williams made up news and rather than fire Brian Williams, the network just moved Brian Williams and let Brian Williams keep pretending to be a newscaster.

4. Kevin Golden:

   Our supporters built an homage to the Courier Journal cartoon at Fancy Farm and we posted their work, amy McGrath has tweeted this very cartoon several times and its shameful that shes pretending not to know exactly what it is referencing in order to politicize a tragedy.

5. Moyses Henriques:

   When he started talking, and pretending to speak like a woman, the guard realized that it was an attempted jailbreak, and identified him, it was an inmate trying to escape as a woman.