Word Finder - pretending

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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.

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The act of imagining; make-believe

There's no pretending on that point.

This pretending and lying can't continue.

At length, in fear of religious innovations and pretending that He is a political usurper, the Jews deliver Him up to die on a Roman cross.

Kris was quiet, pretending to consider.

He yielded, however, to the instances of the government of Charles VI., and pretending that he wished to have an interview with Gregory XII., with a view to their simultaneous abdication, he advanced to Savona, and then to Porto Venere.

I am bone-weary of the degradation, of wearing my false coquettish smile, pretending love, until they spill themselves within me.

Dreams are like pretending.

In spite of her one desire to see her brother as soon as possible, and her vexation that at the moment when all she wanted was to see him they should be trying to entertain her and pretending to admire her nephew, the princess noticed all that was going on around her and felt the necessity of submitting, for a time, to this new order of things which she had entered.

He was pretending to read a book, though she suspected he'd been emplaced as her bodyguard.

She grinned, pretending it was all hers.

She kept her head down, pretending she had a sliver in her finger.

Now, let's work on the prem­ise Byrne didn't drown and start trying to find where he is instead of pretending he didn't skip!

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.

Marat had seen that England was at this time being ruled by an oligarchy using the forms of liberty, which, while pretending to represent the country, was really being gradually mastered by the royal power.

It seemed to Rostov that Bogdanich was only pretending not to notice him, and that his whole aim now was to test the cadet's courage, so he drew himself up and looked around him merrily; then it seemed to him that Bogdanich rode so near in order to show him his courage.

If at first the members of the council thought that Kutuzov was pretending to sleep, the sounds his nose emitted during the reading that followed proved that the commander-in-chief at that moment was absorbed by a far more serious matter than a desire to show his contempt for the dispositions or anything else--he was engaged in satisfying the irresistible human need for sleep.

Sometimes it seemed to him that other people were all as pleased as he was himself and merely tried to hide that pleasure by pretending to be busy with other interests.

I don't know how the others kept a straight face but I pulled out a handkerchief, pretending to blow my nose.

You're all involved, I guess pretending all that other work business.

Joseph and Ginger sat, pretending everyone continued to love one another while no doubt plotting their own sneaky revenge.

Maybe he was only pretending to be interested in her.

The philosophers only helped to precipitate a movement which they had not created; without pointing to absolute power as the cause of the trouble, and without pretending to upset the traditional system, they attempted to instil into princes the feeling of new and more preciseobligations towards their subjects.

Maybe I've got it all wrong, and he wasn't listening at all—just staring at my boobs, and pretending to listen—but to me, it was what I was looking for.

But I hope I'd have the gumption not to rationalize my actions by pretending I believed what I did was right.

The only way she could be sure she was what he wanted was to stop pretending.

Pretending a reconciliation, he invited her to Baiae, where an attempt was made to drown her on a vessel especially constructed to founder.

But it would be absurd to suppose that they are in reality pretending to be dead, because there is no reason to think they can have any knowledge of death.

From a theoretical point of view Hahnemann's is one of the abstract systems, pretending to universality, which modern medicine neither accepts nor finds it worth while to controvert.

When recovered he makes a plausible excuse for leaving Ireland (pretending he has left a wife in his native land) and returns to Cornwall.

The women, after playfully pretending for some time to search for the god, desisted, saying that he had hidden himself among the Muses.

In spite of this proceeding Henry wished to live at peace with his northern neighbour, and soon contemplated marrying his daughter to James, but the Scottish king was not equally pacific. When, in 1 495, Perkin Warbeck, pretending to be the duke of York, Edward IV.'s younger son, came to Scotland, James bestowed upon him both an income and a bride, and prepared to invade England in his interests.

He continued the policy of double-dealing and treachery, deceiving his ministers as at the treaty of Dover, by pretending to support Holland and Spain while he was secretly engaged to Louis to betray them.

Maybe she can make me forget she's a vampire and go back to pretending she's human.

Did you find the bags the way you told me this afternoon— when you were pretending to be Byrne?

He glanced at his vamps, several of which had moved closer while pretending not to listen.

Imagine a little Victorian girl pretending to bake cookies like her mother or playing house with her favorite doll.

Abusers sometimes say mean things while pretending to offer "advice."

How far the Christian feeling of the 4th and 5th centuries was from being settled in favour of the employment of the fine arts is shown by such a case as that of Eusebius of Caesarea, who, in reply to a request of Constantia, sister of Constantine, for a picture of Christ, wrote that it was unlawful to possess images pretending to represent the Saviour either in his divine or in his human nature, and added that to avoid the reproach of idolatry he had actually taken away from a lady friend the pictures of Paul and of Christ which she had.

I can't go to work pretending some stupid product or individual blow-hard is super important while there are children and babies out in the world we could find and save!

His glowing red eyes didn't draw attention in a club where everyone was pretending to be a vampire.

In phrasing his advertisement as he did, Mr Combs is only pretending to be voicing anti-white animus.

It's an ideal party soundtrack - or good for just bopping to alone in your bedroom while pretending to be a movie star!

After pretending to not want the caliphate, once the title was given, he clung to it with all his life's force.

It's just like ET - all the little tiddlers dressed up as ghouls and ghosties, and smiling adults pretending to be afraid.

The details of the text are obscure, and seem to imply that David systematically attacked populations friendly to Achish whilst pretending that he had been making forays against Judah.

The phrase is certainly as old as 1561, and was due to these beggars pretending that they were patients discharged from the Abraham ward at Bedlam.

The first and most famous of these rulers was Gabriel Bethlen (q.v.), who reigned from 1613 to 1629, perpetually thwarted all the efforts of the emperor to oppress or circumvent his Hungarian subjects, and won some reputation abroad by adroitly pretending to champion the Protestant cause.

But probably he knows it well enough and is only pretending.

The status of the teaching profession has not been enhanced by teacher unions pretending otherwise.

It 's just like ET - all the little tiddlers dressed up as ghouls and ghosties, and smiling adults pretending to be afraid.