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pretend
verb as in fake, falsify
Strong matches
act, affect, allege, beguile, cheat, claim, counterfeit, cozen, deceive, delude, dissemble, dissimulate, dupe, fish, fudge, hoodwink, jazz, jive, malinger, masquerade, mislead, sham, simulate, stonewall, sucker, whitewash
Weak matches
be deceitful, be hypocritical, claim falsely, fake out, lay claim, let on, make out, pass off, pass oneself off as, put up a front
verb as in play the part of
Strongest matches
Weak matches
assume the role, make as if, make believe, make out like, make up, put on a front, put on airs, put on an act
Example Sentences
All in good fun for a B-movie, and “P: B” does not pretend to be anything else.
In Florida, a man pretending to be an ICE agent kidnapped a woman who was in the process of becoming a U.S. citizen.
That night, in a cottage near the launch pad, a twenty-seven-year-old fighter pilot named Yuri Gagarin lay still in a wooden bunk, pretending to be asleep.
The rest will limp along, pretending they didn’t see it coming.
“I’m someone who put a blanket under my shirt and pretended I was pregnant at like 5 years old. I’ve never questioned that I want that.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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