false pretension
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But at that critical period of their daughter's life, they were ignorant of human nature, and entirely unskilled in the means of detecting false pretension, or discovering true merit.
From The Lights and Shadows of Real Life by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
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 Hazlitt, William
It is a clear case of false pretension.
From Gryll Grange by Peacock, Thomas Love
He was willing to do it,—but was not willing that there should be any soft-worded, high-toned false pretension.
From The Prime Minister by Trollope, Anthony
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
