Pretence

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NOUN

pretension, pretense

a false or unsupportable quality

guise, pretense, pretext

an artful or simulated semblance

pretense, feigning, dissembling

pretending with intention to deceive

pretense, make-believe

imaginative intellectual play

pretense, pretending, simulation, feigning

the act of giving a false appearance

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