Pretense is valid Scrabble Word

Is pretense a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is pretense valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for PRETENSE in dictionary:

NOUN:

the act of pretending, also PRETENCE
an attempt to make something that is not the case appear true
a false display of feelings, attitudes, or intentions
the practice of inventing imaginary situations in play
affected and ostentatious speech and behaviour
a claim to have a particular skill or quality
Alt. of Pretence
the act of giving a false appearance
pretending with intention to deceive
imaginative intellectual play

a false or unsupportable quality
an artful or simulated semblance

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

same as pretence

Words related to PRETENSE

pretence12 pretenses11

Words that contain PRETENSE

pretenses11 pretenseless14

How to use PRETENSE in a sentence

She had not even slackened long enough to make the usual futile pretense of extending assistance to the unfortunate occupant, or occupants.
The man who cannot run his machine a thousand miles without expert assistance should make no pretense to being a chauffeur, for he is not one.
She had got out to her chair again and had made a pretense of eating an ill-cooked mess of canned stuff which he had brought to her on a tray.
The pretense of the latter would always be at hand.
But he seemed willing to follow her lead to lighter matters, and for the rest of their excursion they carried out the pretense that there was nothing like a cloud in their sky.
But because that was so terrible a thing to face, between him and her she kept up that pretense of a home.
Hubert whom they had seen, advancing from the other direction, and making no pretense that she was not in search of an absent daughter.
Lanley dropped all pretense of not coming, and said he would be there at eight.
Detecting readily the sham and pretense of the performance, he seems to have at least accorded them the merit of an honest delusion.
I have only now discovered that he obtained these recommendations from his friends under a false pretense, which it is needless to trouble you by mentioning in detail.

I am certain that if this clause had been observed, all of these islands would be converted, and that not as a pretense, but in all sincerity.
They are the ruin of good literature and wholesome doctrine by their pitiful pretense of learning and their machinery of false teaching.
We have seen how even Tasso condescended to apply it to his noble epic, which needed no such miserable pretense.
Monsieur de Lucan, after keeping them company for a short time, had just retired, under pretense of writing some letters.
Under the pretense that the light hurt my eyes, I moved back into a dim corner, to keep my anxious face out of view.
He set sail for Cappadocia and Galatia under the pretense of offering sacrifices which he had vowed to the Great Mother.
Sore, stiff and disheartened, Rosemary and Floyd arose soon after the sun was up, and made a pretense at breakfast.
But to strike for Seattle was to throw away all pretense of innocence.
Jael made a pretty good pretense of meeting Grim half-way, and I think she had made up her mind to let him dig his own pit and tumble into it.
He had married a charming woman, simple, straightforward, and sympathetic, free from gossip or pretense, and as capable in practical matters as he was himself.
Under pretense of watching his patient, Small kept close to him.
He felt the enormity of his pretense, and he began again to pick at his motive.
Dan set tasks for her for a week, until she wearied of the pretense.
For a few months he made some sort of a pretense at practising, but it amounted to very little.
Of course there can be no pretense of any kind of claim against the Government arising from these facts.
There is no pretense that there is any need of a public building there except to accommodate the post-office.
There is no pretense that any enlargement of the building is necessary or contemplated.

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