Usually means: Acting under false appearance, facade.
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  1. pretense: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pretense: Merriam-Webster
  3. pretense: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pretense: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pretense: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pretense: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pretense, pretense: Wordnik
  8. pretense: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pretense: Wiktionary
  10. pretense: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pretense: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pretense: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pretense, pretense: Dictionary.com
  14. pretense: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pretense: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pretense (Stargate SG-1), Pretense: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pretense: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pretense: Rhymezone
  19. pretense: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pretense: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. pretense: FreeDictionary.org
  22. pretense: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. pretense: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. pretense: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. pretense: Legal dictionary

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  1. pretense: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pretense: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable or uncountable) The action of pretending; false or simulated show or appearance; false or hypocritical assertion or representation.
noun:  (uncountable) Affectation or ostentation of manner.
noun:  Intention or purpose not real but professed.
noun:  An unsupported claim made or implied.
noun:  An insincere attempt to reach a specific condition or quality.
noun:  (obsolete) Intention; design.

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