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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
“A friend of mine was at our house and made an insensitive joke about epilepsy, and pretended to have a seizure,” Leo explained.
He also once had to pretend to be the British singer when he met his friend's four-year-old son, who was "so insistent that I was really him".
But she insists: “we’ve got to stop kidding ourselves and pretending abuse doesn’t happen.”
"And to understand that impersonating or pretending to be somebody… it's not victimless. It is very real and its psychological impact is particularly strong."
Trump did sign a massive tax cut in his first year in office, but after that, he barely even bothered to pretend he had a legislative agenda.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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