Pretends is valid Scrabble Word

Is pretends a scrabble word?
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8 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for PRETENDS in dictionary:

VERB:

PRETEND, to make believe
behave so as to make it appear that something is the case when in fact it is not
engage in an imaginative game or fantasy
give the appearance of feeling or possessing (an emotion or quality); simulate
lay claim to (a quality or title)

ADJECTIVE:

not really what it is represented as being; imaginary

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to assume or display a false appearance of

Words related to PRETENDS

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How to use PRETENDS in a sentence

What a man says, on the other hand, is what he thinks, more often what he has learned, or it may be even, what he pretends to think.
Thus it is that John Mill pretends to refute the Achilles-tortoise fallacy.
No one pretends that it is anything approaching to a final solution of a complex problem.
The result of this talking that all these things which somebody pretends are not the fact.
One paper she holds up before her, hiding her face as she pretends to read.
But nobody there, except a small knot of pre-Raffaelite men, pretends to do him justice.
Dumas, a deputy, pretends to point out a method of knowing a counter-revolutionist by his physiognomy.
Nobody pretends it, nobody can justify such an assertion.
The action of the piece is breathless and vivid, and the music scarcely pretends to do more than furnish a suitable accompaniment to it.
One or two noblemen excepted, no one either has, or pretends to have sufficient knowledge to argue or adjust a point of law.

She sleeps, or at least she pretends to sleep, which leaves everybody in peace.
Tacitus pretends to know that Agrippina had secretly administered poison to Claudius in a plate of mushrooms.
He speaks English with a nasal accent like a Yankee, but pretends to be Scotch, and calls himself Tommy Bowles.
He says, he waits for instructions, which he pretends to expect from packet to packet.
It seems, however, that everybody is afraid, or pretends to be afraid, to act without the sanction of the Land League.
At least, one is a count and the other pretends to be one.
The latter is possessed of the whole power of the devil, sums up in himself therefore all sin and wickedness, and pretends to be Lord and God.
The interest she takes or pretends to take in racing is something astounding.
You avert your gaze from the spectacle, and until you are gone the owner of the house pretends that nothing has occurred.
He pretends to be subservient to papa, but he is the master.
Dan talks a good game against discrimination and even pretends to speak for the black community.
I have yet to meet anyone who pretends to have received any intense pleasure from a Brahms symphony.

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