Associations to the word «Pretense»
Noun
- Hypocrisy
- Pretending
- Fraud
- Eating
- Margo
- Deception
- Semblance
- Pretension
- Sincerity
- Felony
- Decency
- Financier
- Extortion
- Disguise
- Stripping
- Neutrality
- Pretext
- Parry
- Drow
- Deceit
- Barney
- Theft
- Evasion
- Irony
- Abandon
- Friendship
- Excuse
- Indifference
- Modesty
- Ignorance
- Politeness
- Wishing
- Personal
- Nazis
- Statute
- Contempt
- Captor
- Interrogation
- Offense
- Reality
- Keeping
- Gunman
- Defendant
- Secrecy
- Justification
- Hanover
- Facade
- Perrin
- Confession
- Democracy
- Piety
- Drop
- Competence
- Reluctance
- Therapist
- Guise
- Keep
Adjective
Wiktionary
PRETENSE, noun. (US) A false or hypocritical profession, as, under pretense of friendliness.
PRETENSE, noun. Intention or purpose not real but professed.
PRETENSE, noun. An unsupported claim made or implied.
PRETENSE, noun. An insincere attempt to reach a specific condition or quality.
Dictionary definition
PRETENSE, noun. The act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending".
PRETENSE, noun. Pretending with intention to deceive.
PRETENSE, noun. Imaginative intellectual play.
PRETENSE, noun. A false or unsupportable quality.
PRETENSE, noun. An artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them".
Wise words
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more
value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an
idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words,
but a great deal in a few.