pretense
Example Sentences
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She had been through life’s fires and knew that when it’s a fit, it should not be based on any false pretense.
From Los Angeles Times
Five days earlier, at around 7 a.m., the couple had crossed the border into Kazakhstan in a hired Toyota Hiace van, under the pretense of taking a vacation.
The question then becomes: Will fans still tune into college games when there’s no pretense the players are students?
His publicists invited her under the pretense of a business dinner with Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour, then White surprised Dobrev instead.
From Los Angeles Times
Admittedly, much of social life consists of maintaining a thin pretense of normality.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
