pretense
noun
- 1
the act of giving a false appearance
his conformity was only pretending
- 2
an artful or simulated semblance
under the guise of friendship he betrayed them
- 3
a false or unsupportable quality
- 4
imaginative intellectual play
- 5
pretending with intention to deceive
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