Pretending Synonyms

Put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. venturing
  2. hazarding
  3. presuming
  4. guessing
  5. daring
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To contrive and present as genuine
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. simulating
  2. feigning
  3. faking
  4. counterfeiting
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
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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.

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

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