Word Finder - pretended

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To claim, to allege, especially when falsely or as a form of deliberate deception.

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To feign, affect (a state, quality, etc.).

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To lay claim to (an ability, status, advantage, etc.). (originally used without to)

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To make oneself appear to do or be doing something; to engage in make-believe.

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To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.

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To intend; to design, to plot; to attempt.

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To hold before one; to extend.

She pretended to fan herself.

He pretended to zip a zipper across his lips.

He pretended to hang his head.

She pretended to stifle a yawn.

She pretended he was out on a call and would be back sometime in the night.

Darcie was there, but Cassie pretended not to see her.

She dropped to her knee and pretended to retie her shoe.

Maybe he wasn't as sure of himself as he pretended.

She pretended to consider.

He was not, like Schultens, deceived by the pretended antiquity of the Yemenite Kasidas.

The "Leislerians" pretended greater loyalty to the Protestant succession.

There were ignorant persons who were sincerely orthodox; there were intelligent persons who pretended to be so.

He pretended to have read little, and to be the original architect of his own system, and the claim was no doubt on the whole true.

Marya Dmitrievna, who knew how the prince had received the Rostovs, pretended not to notice how upset Natasha was and jested resolutely and loudly at table with the count and the other guests.

When he came in to tea, silent, morose, and with tear-stained face, everybody pretended not to notice anything.

He pretended to consider.

Here elders were appointed, and the preaching of women, as well as pretended revelations, was condemned.

It is allowable to deceive an enemy by fabricated despatches purporting to come from his own side; by tampering with telegraph 1112Ssages; by spreading false intelligence in newspapers; by sending pretended spies and deserters to give him untrue reports of the numbers or movements of the troops; by employing false signals to lure him into an ambuscade.

This was a pretended revival of an order supposed to have been created by Henry IV.

Molly continued to hold Clair, even feeding her a bottle as Martha explained the mechanics of capturing mother's milk while the rest of us pretended not to listen.

He plugged in a Coltrane disc and then a Gerry Mulligan and laid back to commiserate with the perfect sound of it all while he closed his eyes and pretended he was happy.

Dean caught Randy smiling as he turned from the phone but pretended not to notice.

Too aware of his scrutiny, she cleared her throat and pretended to read the iPad.

But with the excuse of a pretended plot he put a number of the most conspicuous persons in the kingdoms to death, and had William himself blinded.

She pretended to understand, in order not to appear ignorant.

Cassie had to smile when Bordeaux positioned himself in a spot less than ten feet from her and pretended to settle down for the night.

He pretended he needed time to make a few more phone calls but I could see he was disappointed by the delay.

They sat there and pretended to agree, or at least consider the alternatives and ramifications as presented.

He pretended not to notice, though, and thought hard as he checked the minds of the remaining assassins.

Unwilling to alarm them and possibly end up stabbed, he pretended not to know and moved through the room.

Jade pretended to continue to search, mind racing.

Cynthia gave Fred a raised eyebrow look but he pretended not to see her.

Dean and Fred pretended, without success, to not have heard what Edith was saying while she blushed.

She pretended so well to be interested in the recitation of the saga that he almost believed she was becoming a fan.

I read a story once where this here woman pretended to be crazy, eating bugs and stuff like that....

Donnie blushed and Martha pretended she didn't hear so it was up to Dean to introduce her.

Jackson pretended to whisper, but said loud enough for anyone to hear, Messy divorce.

Xander pretending to bite her neck while she lay on top of him, the two of them spooning, even one where the massive man straddled her and pretended to hold her down.

Jessi pretended to take her time settling on the sand, struggling to recall what Gerry said the name of Xander's show was.

Ashley was giggling at their exchange while Brandon pretended like he didn't hear.

Vitellius pretended to believe this, and eventually pardoned Paulinus, after which nothing further is heard of him.

In 1669, when the chair of philosophy at the College Royal fell vacant, one of the four selected candidates had to sustain a thesis against " the pretended new philosophy of Descartes."

No doubt there was a class that knew only English; there may have been a much smaller class that knew only French; any man who pretended to high cultivation would speak all as a matter of course; Bishop Gilbert Foliot, for instance, was eloquent in all three.

A situation - hazardous in spite of its comic substratum - between Thaumasta and the pretended Parthenophil is conducted, as Gifford points out, with real delicacy; but the comic scenes are merely stagy, notwithstanding, or by reason of, the effort expended on them by the author.

On the 22nd of October 16 4 1 he surprised and captured Charlemont Castle; and having been chosen commander-in-chief of the Irish forces in the north, he forged and issued a pretended commission from Charles I.

If we go to Mill to discover what it is, we find that " it is not pretended that the law of diminishing return was operative from the beginning of society; and though some political economists may have believed it to come into operation earlier than it does, it begins quite early enough to support the conclusions they founded on it."

His death was not known to the people, and so in the spring of 522 a usurper pretended to be Smerdis and proclaimed himself king on a mountain near the Persian town Pishiyauvada.

Andrew, who was now with St Louis, interpreted to the king David's message, a real or pretended offer of alliance from the Mongol general Ilchikdai (Ilchikadai), and a proposal of a joint attack upon the Islamic powers for the conquest of Syria.

In the narrow sense of the word, alchemy is the pretended art of making gold and silver, or transmuting the base metals into the noble ones.

Though he lived in an atmosphere of alchemy, he derided the notion of the alkahest or universal solvent, and denounced the deceptions of the adepts who pretended to effect the transmutation of metals; but he believed mercury to be a constituent of all metals and heavy minerals, though he held there was no proof of the presence of "sulphur comburens."