pretense
Example Sentences
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The question then becomes: Will fans still tune into college games when there’s no pretense the players are students?
Because I’d pierced all pretense of having my stuff together, the pressure was off.
From Los Angeles Times
Legal experts, however, said that looks like a pretense.
From Seattle Times
People sneak around, hide, misrepresent themselves, connect under mistaken or false pretenses.
From Los Angeles Times
Similarly, DeSantis’s calls to censor content under the pretense of returning lessons to “the facts” ignore the findings of the people qualified to articulate those “facts” unless they support the desired narrative.
From Scientific American
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
