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US
/pɹiˈtɛndɝ/
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[ UK /pɹɪtˈɛndɐ/ ]
[ UK /pɹɪtˈɛndɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
How To Use pretender In A Sentence
- Sometimes the country has to take precedence over a do-nothing imposter and pretender to the throne.
- He isn't thinking of returning full-time to a career in interviewing and he wasn't keen to offer advice to the latest pretender to his throne.
- Third, the world sees no near-term pretender to the throne because neither the divergent economies within the Euro zone nor the undemocratic Chinese regime command sufficient confidence in their respective currencies. NYT > Opinion
- She has establshied good will with many people across the aisle. did you miss that Steve Clemons found that your belove pretender was negligent with the only job he could have learned something about foreign policy? Bill Clinton: Hillary Will Call Upon Bush 41
- The real contest, champions v pretenders, begins. Times, Sunday Times
- Such changes towards a commercialized society destabilized Scottish society, leading to support for the Stuart pretender across the seas in France.
- Suddenly, the hurdling landscape is vibrant, young pretenders jostling for prominence in a fascinatingly fluid cast. Times, Sunday Times
- I wonder if pretender is going to do that dumb ass Bruce Springsteen crap today. Think Progress » Church Uses Marquee To Speak Out Against Beck: ‘Sorry Mr Beck, Jesus Preached Social Justice’
- This one consideration, I say, well weighed and applied, will retund the edge and dint of all the Socinian assaults against this great article; whom I have still observed to assert boldly, when they conclude weakly, and in all their arguments to prove nothing more than this, that the greatest pretenders to, are not always the greatest masters of reason. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
- This account of seemingly genuine claimants, reckless pretenders, daffy charlatans and patently mad pretenders to the French crown is the stuff of high farce.