a false or unsupportable quality

[ Syn: pretension , pretense ]

an artful or simulated semblance; under the guise of friendship he betrayed them

[ Syn: guise , pretense , pretext ]

pretending with intention to deceive

[ Syn: pretense , feigning , dissembling ]

imaginative intellectual play

[ Syn: pretense , make-believe ]

the act of giving a false appearance; his conformity was only pretending

[ Syn: pretense , pretending , simulation , feigning ]