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let on like

VERB

make believe

Synonyms

WEAK

act as if act as though bluff counterfeit dream enact fake fantasize feign fool imagine make as if play play the part play-act playact pretend simulate

Antonyms

WEAK

live reality

VERB

put on an act

Synonyms

WEAK

bluff fake feign invent make up play possum play the part pose pretend simulate

Example Sentences

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Why, they just don’t let on, like she was a regular person.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Seemed nobody had told Pastor Howard either, as he didn’t let on like he thought it was funny.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

I let on like I hadn’t seen this because I knew what it was.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

I'm just to be, not to make believe or let on like I was, but to be a real lady inside.

From The Shepherd of the Hills by Wright, Harold Bell

Put 'er back in the monument and don't let on like we think they're after this claim at all.

From Casey Ryan by Bower, B. M.