Pretence is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PRETENCE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of pretending, also PRETENSE
• 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
• behaviour intended to deceive, pretending
• The act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption; pretension.
• The act of holding out, or offering, to others something false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical; deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of patriotism; on pretense of revenging Caesar\'s death.
• That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint.
• Intention; design.
• a false or unsupportable quality
• an artful or simulated semblance
• pretending with intention to deceive
• imaginative intellectual play
• the act of giving a false appearance
ADJECTIVE:
• Alt. of Pretenceless

Words related to PRETENCE

kidstakes18 pretences13 pretense10

Words that contain PRETENCE

pretences13 pretenceless16

How to use PRETENCE in a sentence

• But were I to provoke my mother, that might afford a pretence.
• His sympathy is beautiful, because it is devoid of any pretence or forced pathos.
• It was increased when he discovered me, as he supposed, using a pretence of liberality and sentiment to give new edge to my hostility.
• The usual result is that favourable artillery positions are searched for, and that they are then adhered to under some tactical pretence.
• Then, perceiving the absurdity of this pretence, she was quite lost for a moment.
• He had gone off on the pretence of a visit to some shrine, and his followers would not fight.
• When the last guest had gone, he rose from his chair, with no pretence of spiritual dignity, and counted his money and his tickets.
• Now, if he could have gone out of the door on some pretence and run off, down King Street, he would have borne the subsequent shame and humiliation.
• However, whether this was the case or not, we were wide awake when our visitor came to bed, and having no particular object to gain, we made no pretence of sleeping.
• The pretence for the scheme was to discharge the national debt, by reducing all the funds into one.
• This incident served Henry as a pretence for his severity towards that prince.
• We are not as wise as God! Religion To most men who have not heard the message of this teaching, religion seems an outward form, a pretence, merely a seal of respectability.
• He was summoned to appear at Plymouth, but he avoided the summons upon some pretence, which probably had no real foundation.
• I turned my back on the stream before she saw me, and made a pretence of being taken up with something in another direction.
• Therefore, the death being concealed for several days, though Tarquin had already expired, he, under pretence of discharging the duty of another, strengthened his own interest.
• Now she could only watch and wait, half persuaded that the pretence was no pretence, yet always dreading the summons of reality to end the play.
• They made no pretence to do this, and thereby showed their wisdom, for obviously the thing cannot be done.
• The reason given him was, on the face of it now, in view of what he now knew, mere pretence.
• He secretly published his correspondence with Swift and then set up a pretence that Swift had been the culprit.
• Besides, it is a dangerous precedent to name to any situation under a pretence like this, as the practice may become gradually enlarged.
• But in England there is no pretence of maintaining the three branches uniform either in importance or in power.
• Under this pretence he took Ramiro, and one morning caused him to be executed and left on the piazza at Cesena with the block and a bloody knife at his side.
• The pretence, therefore, that this was done at the request of the Overseers, gives no strength to the act.
• And under no pretence have any ledge whatever out-of sight.
• But eare he thus had said, With flying speede, and seeming great pretence Came running in, much like a man dismaid, 215 A Messenger with letters, which his message said.

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