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n. The act of pretending; a false appearance or action intended to deceive.

n. A false or studied show; an affectation: a pretense of nonchalance.

n. A professed but feigned reason or excuse; a pretext: under false pretenses.

n. Something imagined or pretended.

n. Mere show without reality; outward appearance.

n. A right asserted with or without foundation; a claim. See Synonyms at claim.

n. The quality or state of being pretentious; ostentation.

n. A false or hypocritical profession, as, under pretense of friendliness.

n. Intention or purpose not real but professed.

n. An unsupported claim made or implied.

n. An insincere attempt to reach a specific condition or quality.

n. The act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption; pretension.

n. The act of holding out, or offering, to others something false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical; deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false show; simulation

n. That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint.

n. Intention; design.

n. An intention; a design; a purpose.

n. The act of pretending, or putting forward something to conceal the true state of affairs, and thus to deceive; hence, the representation of that which does not exist; simulation; feigning; a false or hypocritical show; a sham.

n. That under cover of which an actual design or meaning is concealed; a pretext.

n. Pretension; aspiration; the putting forth of a claim, particularly to merit, dignity, or personal worth; pretentiousness.

n. A claim; a right asserted, with or without foundation.

n. a false or unsupportable quality

n. pretending with intention to deceive

n. imaginative intellectual play

n. the act of giving a false appearance

n. an artful or simulated semblance

"Another article in the "mainstream" media criticizing President Obama, in which the pretense is about an "open media" and "transparency," but the subtext is obvious – racism, pure and simple."

artificiality    imagery    imagination    mental imagery    imaging    colour    color    semblance    gloss   

claim    pretext    statute of false pretenses    false pretense    shield of pretense    escutcheon of pretense   

pretender    pretension    pretentiousness    pretend    pretentious   

assumption    pretension    simulation    pretext    feint    intention    design    denotes    deception    subterfuge   

Spence    cents    commence    commonsense    condense    defence    defense    dense    dispense    expense   

pretence    subterfuge    affectation    pretext    semblance    deception    hypocrisy    artifice    duplicity    ruse