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Pretending Synonyms

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The act of giving a false appearance
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. feigning
  2. simulation
  3. assumption
  4. shamming
  5. bluffing
  6. dissembling
  7. counterfeiting
  8. dissimulation
  9. pretense
  10. concealment
  11. covering
  12. masking
  13. cheating
  14. screening
  15. pretence
Put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. venturing
  2. hazarding
  3. presuming
  4. guessing
  5. daring
To contrive and present as genuine
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. simulating
  2. feigning
  3. faking
  4. counterfeiting
Make believe with the intent to deceive
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. professing
  2. playing
  3. dissembling
  4. inventing
  5. affecting
  6. imagining
  7. creating
  8. feigning
  9. shamming
  10. portraying
  11. representing
Represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. simulating
  2. shamming
  3. feigning
  4. deceiving
  5. faking
  6. counterfeiting
  7. bluffing
  8. impersonating
  9. posing
  10. misleading
  11. assuming
  12. dissembling
  13. making
  14. beseeming
  15. purporting
  16. acting
  17. affecting
  18. acknowledging
  19. alleging
  20. imitating
  21. proclaiming
  22. professing
  23. imagining
  24. disguising
  25. claiming
Behave unnaturally or affectedly
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. acting
  2. simulating
  3. shamming
  4. dissembling
  5. posing
  6. feigning
  7. faking
  8. counterfeiting

Pretending Sentence Examples

  • 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.

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Pretending Is Also Mentioned In

  • pretence
  • shill
  • hypocrisy
  • virtual memory
  • Job's comforter
  • affectation
  • lace-curtain
  • would-be
  • double agent
  • pump-fake
  • scam-artist
  • aeolist

Words near Pretending in the Thesaurus

  • pre-tax
  • pretence
  • pretend
  • pretended
  • pretender
  • pretenders
  • pretending
  • pretends
  • pretense
  • pretenses
  • pretension
  • pretensions
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