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

[ Syn: pretence , pretending , simulation , feigning ]

pretending with intention to deceive

[ Syn: pretence , feigning , dissembling ]

imaginative intellectual play

[ Syn: pretence , make-believe ]

a false or unsupportable quality

[ Syn: pretension , pretence ]

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

[ Syn: guise , pretence , pretext ]