How To Use Pretended In A Sentence

Stealing away, (whence, I suppose, the ironical phrase of trusty Trojan to this day,) like a thief — pretendedly indeed at the command of the gods; but could that be, when the errand he went upon was to rob other princes, not only of their dominions, but of their lives? — Clarissa Harlowe
She blew out through her lips and pretended to fan herself.
Howbeit when they should come to sit downe at dinner, there kindled a strife betwixt the said two bishops about their places, bicause the bishop of London, for that he had beene ordeined long before the archbishop, and therefore not onelie as deane to the see of Canturburie, but also by reason of prioritie, pretended to haue the vpper seat. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I.
Seigi saw Drew glance at him sharply, putting two and two together, but the bowman pretended he hadn't seen the look, and continued to watch Lillandra.
I pretended to be deep in conversation in the middle of a very important telephone call.

On the part of those on whom they operate, they are indicative either of improbity or intellectual weakness, or of a contempt for the understanding of those on whose minds they are indicative of intellectual weakness; and on the part of those in and by whom they are pretended to operate, they are indicative of improbity, viz., in the shape of insincerity. Fallacies of Anti-Reformers
She pretended not to notice.
They escaped after the woman pretended she would run away with him. The Sun
He pretended not to know her but in fact they were in league together.
They escaped after the woman pretended she would run away with him. The Sun
One of the most expensive departments in a car plant is the paint shop, so DeLorean saved the money and pretended that the brushed stainless steel finish was a style feature.
She pretended to trip on a cobblestone and feigned a sprain.
I was pretty affable myself, just then, and pretended not to hear one or two of the more jealous remarks that were dropped - about how odd it was that Her Majesty hadn't chosen one of the purple brigade to squire her young cousin, not so much as Guardee even, but a plain Mr - and who the deuce were the Flashmans anyway? The Sky Writer
Yes indeed I enjoyed horses vicariously and occasionally even pretended to be Jill and set up a few jumps in the garden and did a bit of giddy-up neddy trotting around my own gymkhana. Such stuff as dreams are made on...
She pretended to be riveted by the alignment of the deep V of her décolletage. AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
She pretended illness as an excuse.
Mama pretended to busy herself with threading a needle, but I could tell that it was only show.
He did not see his seed, nor prolong his days, since he died childless; and we will not permit the word seed to be spiritualized on this occasion, for the word seed in the Old Testament, means nothing else, than literally children, which it is not pretended he ever had; and how could he prolong his days, when he was cut off in his 33d year. The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old
He hit the big time in the 1970s with stuttering performances as he pretended to have a sound problem. The Sun
He elevated it to chest height, and pretended to load it.
They visited the keeper of the jewels and Maria pretended to faint to cause a distraction.
Maybe he wasn't really that arrogant, cocky egomaniac that he pretended to be.
I pretended not to hear what he muttered under his breath. Times, Sunday Times
I beat a very hasty retreat and the committee pretended that they hadn't seen anything. Times, Sunday Times
_howling_ dervishes; all our religion consisted in howling like jackals or hyenas, with all our might, until we fell down in real or pretended convulsions. The Pacha of Many Tales
The blow was struck: henceforth the interpreters and all those who had dealings with the Arabs received orders to make them understand that my pretended miracles were only the result of skill, inspired and guided by an art called prestidigitation, in no way connected with sorcery. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life
At each execution of a traitor, or pretended such, anguish seizes the survivors.
He pretended that resigning was part of his long - term career strategy.
‘Sit down, sit down,’ he growled, for he hated - or pretended to hate-big men to overtop him, even in the more physical matter of height which of course none of us can help.
I suppose that when I saw Dora in the garden and pretended not to see her, and rode past the house pretending to be anxiously looking for it, I committed two small fooleries which other young gentlemen in my circumstances might have committed — because they came so very natural to me. David Copperfield
I pretended to be concerned with my own affairs but it was hard considering the fact I was terrible at keeping to myself.
When the reprobates returned to beg forgiveness, Cecily pointedly asked Algernon why he had pretended to be Ernest.
Bauman, a disappointed suppliant, pretended ease in an oak armchair facing Tomlinson's desk. STONE CITY
ANTICHRIST is the adversary of Christ; an adversary really, a friend pretendedly. The Riches of Bunyan
This sceptical dogma of "evasiveness" is generally found in alliance with some vague modern "religion" whose chief object is to strip the world of the dignity of its real tragedy and endow it with the indignity of some pretended assurance. The Complex Vision
Bauman, a disappointed suppliant, pretended ease in an oak armchair facing Tomlinson's desk. STONE CITY
He approached the motorway exit to the airport but pretended he hadn't seen it. Times, Sunday Times
And for no other reason than that they farmed along the track that Colonel Neville pretended to have taken. MOONDROP TO MURDER
He pretended to scalp me with his sword.
I pretended complete ignorance of the French language, he therefore asked me in Italian minutely about my affairs, and how I could attempt to travel home without any money or goods, to defray the expenses of the journey. Travels in Nubia
Reformers of the sixteenth century, partly followed by the Baianist and Jansenist school, so minimized the native power and moral value of our free will as to make final perseverance depend on God alone, while their pretended fiducial faith and inadmissibility of grace led to the conclusion that we can, in this world, have absolute certainty of our final perseverance. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
He pretended to show how an uneducated slave boy could be led to prove Pythagoras' theorem for doubling the square.
And he is wearing his neckcloths higher on his neck to conceal his jowliness, but I have pretended not to notice. Exit the Actress
David Leathley pretended to be Joel Bennathan QC in what he described as a "ruse of war" to prove his accuser was lying. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
An empty wrapper blew from his tray, but he pretended not to notice. DO NO HARM
Still, we pretended not to notice. Times, Sunday Times
I beat a very hasty retreat and the committee pretended that they hadn't seen anything. Times, Sunday Times
A private citizen, secretly acting for the clergy, had pretended he was buying the land for non-religious purposes.
We disregarded these gathering clouds – and pretended that a period we retrospectively dub opulent and irresponsible was normal – when we might at least have been enjoying their silver linings. Whelk ice cream never meant we stopped being a Pot Noodle nation
Donald said, what can one do, and we both pretended to shrug it off, to hurry away.
During the whole process I pretended to be engrossed in the novel, although a strong sense of indignation was simmering within.
I pretended to feel ill and went home feeling shocked and numb. The Sun
The coach pretended not to hear him. There was no way he wanted is worst player in this close playoff game.
The word honey smelled the worst, and I pretended to look out my window to get away from it. The Beautiful Miscellaneous
I pretended to feel ill and went home feeling shocked and numb. The Sun
He once pretended to be a drunkard holding a bottle to escape the attention of several people from a criminal gang.
Waving polite hellos, I pretended to listen into what was turning out to be a very boring conversation about stocks and bonds.
There was no knowing the sense of the people; for when the chief captain enquired concerning Paul, having perhaps never heard of his name before (such strangers were the great ones to the excellent ones of the earth, and affected to be so), some cried one thing, and some another, among the multitude; so that it was impossible for the chief captain to know their mind, when really they knew not either one another's mind or their own, when every one pretended to give the sense of the whole body. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Wong Chia Chi was seeking for an opportunity to kill Mr. Yi. At one night, she pretended to visit the jewelry shop, while Mr. Yi presented her the ring with lovingly affectionateness in his eyes.
It has been pretended that the word rakia may be translated expanse, so as merely to mean empty space. Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques de Gen��ve; On the Mosaic Cosmogony; Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750; On the Interpr
Italy has always preserved its name, notwithstanding the pretended establishment of Æneas, which should have left some traces of the language, characters, and manners of Phrygia, if he ever came with Achates and so many others, into the province of A Philosophical Dictionary
He politely pretended not to have heard this remark.
Karly pretended not to hear him and continued with goggling at the bird.
I was afraid that Mark would wolf-whistle his appreciation or do the hideous thing with his pocket where he pretended to have become erect. MUSIC FOR BOYS
I pretended to be looking up St. John the Baptist but then turned over in a hurry to the L 's while she was washing her chalkboards. HOMELAND AND OTHER STORIES
The two men pretended meanwhile for half an hour to outsit each other conveniently; and the end -- at that rate -- might have been distant had not the tension in some degree yielded to the arrival of a friend of M. de Madame De Mauves
If you had asked me, I think I would have been hard-pressed to explain why I pretended to be sick so much. The Dark Side of Innocence
His whole behavior gives color to the supposition that he was the accomplice of a pretended death.
Abaris, priest of the hyperborean Apollo, who it is pretended was contemporary with Pythagoras, was still more famous for his rod. A Philosophical Dictionary
I beat a very hasty retreat and the committee pretended that they hadn't seen anything. Times, Sunday Times
I, the spirit of Airyanem Vaejah Nation, pretended when I arrived to be a merchant from Media looking for goods to buy and take back to Bakhtaran [37]. OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion
He pretended not to know her but in fact they were in league together.
sectionalism" against the Republicans, pretended to see no impropriety in proposing this purely selfish and sectional alliance. Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02
He pretended to peer into another gallipot and then took off his spectacles to wipe them. The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
It was a long speech, too, by a politician who never pretended that speech-making was one of his top assets.
The word honey smelled the worst, and I pretended to look out my window to get away from it. The Beautiful Miscellaneous
‘Oy, sexist pig’ I pretended to swipe at him with my bag and he grinned.
In 1671 he and Maria disguised themselves as a parson and his wife. They visited the keeper of the jewels and Maria pretended to faint to cause a distraction.
He has pretended to too many women and I hate this sort of man.
That didn't stop her from sneaking looks at both Sam and Rosie as she pretended to be studying the menu.
She dandled the fruit playfully, kissed it several times, and pretended to juggle it, while laughing with a delicious babbling brook of a laugh.
It pretended it was all about knitting, but really it was about puns. Times, Sunday Times
But she has unhinged me, as you call it: pretended to catechise Hickman, I assure you, for contributing to our supposed correspondence. Clarissa Harlowe
To Daniel he gave a double portion; he had understanding in visions and dreams; he knew how to interpret dreams, as Joseph, not by rules of art, such as are pretended to be given by the oneirocritics, but by a divine sagacity and wisdom which God gave him. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
I'm pretty sure when I was small, we had a toy - doll, car, train, whatever - and pretended it was what we wanted it to be.
On that question he pretended to decline expressing an opinion; but urged the action on the false suggestion that this Grand Lodge had voluntarily repudiated her jurisdiction over what he called the loyal portion of Virginia -- and in the form of queries, argued that that portion of her territory was now a Masonic waste, in which any Grand Lodge might charter a Lodge. Free masonry and the war : report of the committee under the resolutions of 1862, Grand Lodge of Virginia, in reference to our relations as masonic bodies and as masons, in the North and South, growing out of the manner in which the present war has been p
I rocked back on my heels and pretended to be offended, though the effect was probably ruined by the badly suppressed grin on my face.
There is more danger from a pretended friend than from an enemy.
The overpaid millionaires and their spouses, gay lovers, dates and/or mistresses, no longer even pretended to turn away.
Quickly stowing the teddy bear under her bed (it enraged her father to see it), she grabbed one of her schoolbooks and pretended to be reading about biology.
Illiam Dhone's sons, George and Ewan, presented petitions for redress, and, after some delay, the earl, the deemsters, and three other members of ‘the pretended court of justice’ were brought before the King in Council.
The photographer scattered cotton reels on our billowing skirts and we pretended to weave some kilts for our wild Scottish blokes out there in the hills.
While his heart thumped eagerly he went with slow and pretended reluctance back to the old desk.
Two very early forms of this tale are the "Vanarinda-jataka," No. 57, which tells how the crocodile lay on a rock to catch the monkey, and how the latter outwitted the crocodile; and the "Sumsumara-jataka," No. 208, in which a crocodile wanted the heart of a monkey, and the monkey pretended that it was hanging on a fig-tree. Filipino Popular Tales
What some of these people noticed was that if you pretended you could take the square root of a negative number, and you went ahead and didn't blink, you could come out with the right answer.
Instead he reveals a non-smoking, non-drinking grafter who pretended to toss off plays and movie scripts in an afternoon but actually spent night after night at home writing.
The tension was thick in the silence as he stood there and pretended to double-check his shoelaces.
The rest of us pretended not to notice but quietly adored that. Times, Sunday Times
Moreover we declare that she had forfeited her pretended title to the aforesaid kingdom, to every right, dignity, and privilege.
By night the dictator had the knights occupy in advance the Capitol and the remaining points of vantage, and at dawn he sent to Mælius Gaius Servilius, master of the horse, to summon him pretendedly on some other errand. Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form
It pretended it was all about knitting, but really it was about puns. Times, Sunday Times
He was friendly and pretended to make a knight's move on one of mum's designer boards for the local press. Times, Sunday Times
She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber
Mr. Gilgan, so Cowperwood knew, was only one of a new quadrumvirate setting out to rule the city, but he pretended to believe that he was the last word — an all power and authority — after the fashion of McKenty. The Titan
For the rest, the bailiff pretended to consult him, then did as he thought best.
They give occasion, it is pretended, to much extortion in the officers of the farmers-general who collect the tax, which is in a great measure arbitrary and uncertain. II. Book V. Of the Sources of the General or Public Revenue of the Society
We had been turned away by a fat, corrupt policeman who pretended our papers weren't in order, but who was really taking instructions from a dead-eyed, one-eared gangmaster who sat next to him. Archive 2008-09-01
I have heard the tale of the kneepan of Ajax, the pretended body of Orestes claimed to have been found by the Spartans, and of the body of Journey to the Interior of the Earth
It didn’t mean she was a physical virgin, it meant she was a cockteaser who pretended to outraged indignation when a man tried to have sex with her, convinced that she wanted it. Naked Cruelty
The stranger pretended to offer to tell her fortune.
May pretended that she was acting sorry about dumping him.
He pretended to his family and friends that his doddering gait was due to old soccer injuries.
(Another pause, and a sigh.) "For my part, I never pretended to have what they call the bump of locality. Major Vigoureux
I pretended to be asleep and held my breath when you tried to chloroform me, you idiot!
As I was scanning this post, I pretended to be reading the text and critically reflecting on the discussed concepts while at the same time pretending to be evaluating the esthetical and graphical aspects of the type font. What Are You Looking At?
He hit me in my bad shoulder, the one that got shot, so I hit the ground, and pretended it hurt horribly.
Her philosophy was purely laical; thought was unrestrained by any sacred tradition; it even pretended to pass judgment upon these traditions and condemned or approved of them. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
A former Conservative councillor who pretended to be a barrister to gain social status and well-paid jobs wept in court as she was spared jail. Times, Sunday Times
He pulled out his needler again and pretended to polish it with his handkerchief, all without taking his eyes off Lew. Command Decision
He was not the calm, impassive, almost marble-like man that he pretended to be.
In a last, desperate act to save himself, James looked at his watch and pretended to be shocked.
She pretended she wasn't excited but the expression on her face was a dead giveaway.
Then, the killers posed as journalists; this time, they pretended to be defectors.
When I heard footsteps nearing the door, I quickly pretended to be asleep again.
The dull life at Oxford was varied by the occasional visit of a mesmeric lecturer; and one youth caused peals of canorous laughter by walking round in a pretended mesmeric sleep and kissing the pretty daughters of the dons. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
Essentially, we had pretended to be representatives of a British defense firm peddling handheld thermal imagers to the Indian army.
His descendants included Helen, who pretended she was bewitched.
Last time, he even pretended to be a podiatrist in order to fondle and suck a woman's toes at a clothing store.
I pretended to be asleep.
Some hold the Koranic passage to have been revealed in confutation of the Jews, who pretended that if a man lay with his wife backwards, he would beget a cleverer child. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
I got waved down to an intertribal dance by some friendly old folks in buckskin, but I pretended they were waving at somebody else. Hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Empty Seats at the Pow Wow
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Some of the cameramen called the medic and pretended to be checking on me and saying this rib might be broken. Buzzine » Jennifer Garner
Raven walked up beside him and pretended nothing of him as he ordered a strong drink from the barkeep.
He laughed and I pretended to be offended, but ended up cracking a smile anyway.
We felt foolish standing there with rain water soaking up our ragged jean clad legs so we pretended that we liked that feeling of creeping dampness on the tube.
If she was quite exasperated with the stupidity of Yakub, the dvornik, she pretended to curse him in a phrase of her own invention, a mixture of Hebrew and Russian, which, translated, said, "Mayst thou have gold and silver in thy bosom"; but to the choreman, who was not a linguist, the mongrel phrase conveyed a sense of his delinquency. The Promised Land
I feigned a mask of innocence as I pretended to study the menu, as if the choice of seafood paella versus black paella vastly interested me.
He buried himself in the speech he was writing and pretended he hadn't a clue who I was.
He just now has signified, that the gentleman is dead, whose living he has had hope of; and he came pretendedly to tell Mrs. Jewkes of it; and so could speak this to her before me. Pamela
This, let's not forget, is the man who only this week pretended to cut off part of his ear in a press conference.
I shall pardon, only telling him that One who knows what is secret will not overlook the ravaging of His Church by a man of such a character; a man who originally appoints uncanonically, then imposes oaths in violation of the Gospel, then tells a man to perjure himself in the matter of his transfer, and last of all lies in pretended forgetfulness. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
I pretended to be looking up St. John the Baptist but then turned over in a hurry to the L 's while she was washing her chalkboards. HOMELAND AND OTHER STORIES
I pretended to be interested - I even learnt the names of some of the players, and eventually was forced to swear allegiance to a team.
He pulled out an imaginary golf club pretended to tee up his and swung.
In a word, this parson did his duty well, and pleasantly for all his flock; and nothing imbittered him, unless a man pretended to doctrine without holy orders. Mary Anerley
It was a highly gratifying idea; the incommunicability of one stratum of animal life with another, -- though Hedger pretended it was only an experiment in unusual lighting. Youth and the Bright Medusa
She was standing like a lamped rabbit in the middle of the stage and no matter how many times I prodded and poked and pretended to fight, she didn't rise to it.
I pretended to be a reporter so they didn't mark something down on DJ's record like wacko parent.
The girls pretended to have lost a ring under the table, so he crawled under and looked for it.
The pretended purpose of it was to encourage the manufactures, and to increase the commerce of Great Britain.
Let us cease advertence to these melancholy adventures, which make us groan at the human condition; but let us continue to lament the pretended certainty of judges, when they pass such sentences. A Philosophical Dictionary
Of course I didn't want to open my eyes and be confronted with that loudness so I pretended to stay asleep.
He buried himself in the speech he was writing and pretended he hadn't a clue who I was.
And he is telling us today with pretended pride that he will do it all over again.
The woman thus pretendedly robbed was one Mary Jones.
Claudia pretended that she was blind and had to depend upon her senses of hearing, touch and smell.
I pretended to feel ill and went home feeling shocked and numb. The Sun
he pretended profundity by eye-beamings at people
As long as the adulterer was discreet and the wife either didn't know what was going on or was willing to pretend she didn't know, everybody else also pretended not to know.
But, then again, I still think that E.R. Burroughs is king because he never pretended that his work was “great literature”. Think Progress » After initially applauding Bunning’s obstruction, Cornyn now runs away.
Some that are so esteemed, indeed, never pretended unto any sobriety, but were mere effects of delirant [raving] imaginations; yet did even they also, one way or other, derive from an hatred unto the person of Christologia
As he drew abreast of the man he pretended to stumble.
There is more danger from a pretended friend than from an enemy.
He pretended not to notice the younger man's barely withheld emotions.
He pretended to learning.
He flattened his ears, closed his eyes tighter and pretended to snore.
Drinks were being ordered and Charlie pretended to be totally engrossed in that, which wasn't too much of a stretch for him, but at the same time his mind was doing a few other calculations.
Adults while knowing better pretended clarity they lacked and asserted platitudes they disbelieved, hoping to spare their children the pain of unrealizable dreams. James Block: From Occupy to Progressive Renewal: Demanding the Just Society
And there is not much chance that she toffed herself up and pretended to be a lady!
The stranger pretended to offer to tell her fortune.
I stared at the so-called groomsmen, who had all pretended to care about me, and sighed. The Hot Box
Dom had left with the look of a beaten dog on his face, the nurse had gone too, and the doctor had checked some things in his room while Matt pretended to be sleeping before he left too.
She divided the bun in half, giving him the largest portion, and was rewarded with a bit of pretended reluctance and a big smile.
After the music stopped and the stock tanked and they collapsed into bankruptcy, everyone on Wall Street pretended to be absolutely shocked that such a thing could happen.
But they never pretended to hold the region thus ravaged; it was sack, burn, plunder, and away; and these desolating inroads were retaliated in kind by the Moorish cavaliers, whose greatest delight was a "tala," or predatory incursion, into the Christian territories beyond the mountains. Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
Pegler gave him a swift, reproving look, while Leslie pretended not to have heard what her husband had said. THE OTHER DEVIL'S NAME
The humiliation of beggary often produced resentments which, in turn, led to retaliation often in the form of pretended witchery: spreading white powder as threat to kill cattle or to make people ill.
The police divested the pretended officer of his stolen uniform.
It would be a very fragile moral and political order that depended upon pretended ignorance of social facts.
And then in 1939/40 there were some Americans (pilots) who went north to Canada where the Canadians pretended they were Canadians so they could join the RCAF and then fly with the RAF – despite the fact that technically they were betraying the US by fighting in a foreign uniform. Think Progress » Dobbs Defends His Birther Advocacy: ‘Seems To Me Still A Perfectly Commonsense Question’
For a few minutes they both pretended, but soon enough they wound up at the base of the steel-staired tower. Weightlifting for Catholics
French chap who doesn't know his own language, at least he pretended not to when I talked to him and said, ` Il regarde comme un mouille jour. ' Boycotted And Other Stories
Without this reflection I should make a very unsafe use of these conceptions, and construct pretended synthetical propositions which critical reason cannot acknowledge and which are based solely upon a transcendental amphiboly, that is, upon a substitution of an object of pure understanding for a phenomenon. The Critique of Pure Reason
The blonde stopped at an oak hallstand with shiny brass hooks and pretended to look at the price. Honeymoon
He then apparently pretended to take a call from police, tricking motorists into lending him as much as 1,000 to recover his car. The Sun
Thus far he had made do with the hard-mouthed bay that Hakim had called a nag, and an evil-tempered pack mule that pretended every shadow was a lion waiting to pounce and kept up a constant braying that strongly tempted Sabin to cut its wretched throat. The Falcons of Montabard
He pretended not to know her but in fact they were in league together.
Cook called the delusive point Cape Flattery and added: "It is in this very latitude (48 degrees 15 minutes) that geographers have placed the pretended Straits of Juan de Fuca; but we saw nothing like it; nor is there the least possibility that any such thing ever existed. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward
After the term appointed for its pretended destruction was elapsed, they sent scouts to the city, which they had left quite empty, and, hearing that it was still standing, returned to it, and with their fears forgot their repentance and all their good resolutions. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
A great ease came upon my mind; it was lightened of a load that had lain on it since ever my Tynree spaewife found, or pretended to find, in my silvered loof such an unhappy portent of my future. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
Still, we pretended not to notice. Times, Sunday Times
Drank her light-hearted — then carried her to a play — then it was too late, you know, to see the pretended lady — then to a bagnio — ruined her, as they call it, and all this the same day. Clarissa Harlowe
The comic writers of the town, when they had got hold of this story, made much of it, and bespattered him with all the ribaldry they could invent, charging him falsely with the wife of Menippus, one who was his friend and served as lieutenant under him in the wars; and with the birds kept by Pyrilampes, an acquaintance of Pericles, who, they pretended, used to give presents of peacocks to Pericles female friends. Pericles
The latter pretended to be at work, and occasionally the second lieutenant "jawed" at him for his clumsiness in lacing the sailcloth. On The Blockade
Being nasty, rude, shrewish and creepy was very fun to do - I simply pretended to be in a bad mood each time the camera rolled.
The General made no reply to this announcement; but took up his opera-glass — the double-barrelled lorgnon was not invented in those days — and pretended to examine the house; but Rebecca saw that his disengaged eye was working round in her direction, and shooting out bloodshot glances at her and George. Vanity Fair
Those papers are said to have fully established that to spread discord and revolt among the people was the real object of his pretendedly pacific mission.
The police divested the pretended officer of his stolen uniform.
Fans turned up to gigs in ridiculous anoraks, sold fanzines with names like Frothy Pop and pretended they were carefree 18-year-olds.

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