false pretension
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It is a clear case of false pretension.
From Gryll Grange by Thomas Love Peacock
The detection, it is true, is not so easy, because the objects are not so nigh at hand to compare, and therefore there is more room both for false pretension and for self-deceit.
From Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners by William Hazlitt
Dissimulā′tion, the act of dissembling: a hiding under a false appearance: false pretension: hypocrisy; Dissimulā′tor.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Now, any British Mason will see at a glance that all this is a false pretension.
From Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta H. Webster
She said this, therefore, only to tease her aunt by the false pretension that the secret had been confided to her.
From History of King Charles the Second of England by Jacob Abbott
