pretense

How To Use pretense In A Sentence

• But, just in case you get the idea that all was pretence and subterfuge, I feel I should let you know just how the mother of a friend of mine described the communist years.
• He had circled around to come to the village by the south, on the pretence of making it appear that he was headed for Kaye.
• The novel is also natural in the sense of man's everyday life, done without pretence and pose.
• For matter of Religion it would require a particular volume, if I should set downe how irreligiously they couer their greedy and ambicious pretenses, with that veile of pietie. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
• He didn't like the food, but he made a pretence of eating some of it as he was a guest.
• One of the nice things about this world is that, when the screwers talk to the screwed, they've abandoned the current pretense of pretending it's for the screwed's own good.
• I'm all for good satire, the sharp and perceptive deflating of pretense, pompousness or deceit.
• The following list makes no pretence to completeness; ‘martext’, ‘carrytale’, ‘pleaseman’, English Past and Present
• Miss Margland, who, sideling towards the window, on pretence of examining a print, had heard and seen all that had passed, was almost overpowered with rage, by the conviction she received that her apprehensions were not groundless. Camilla
• The democratic pretences of the opposition have always been threadbare.