Pretense

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NOUN

pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning

the act of giving a false appearance

pretence, feigning, dissembling

pretending with intention to deceive

pretence, make-believe

imaginative intellectual play

pretension, pretence

a false or unsupportable quality

guise, pretence, pretext

an artful or simulated semblance

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