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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
Sidhu has also had to fend off scam calls from people pretending to have her dog and demanding the reward money.
The comedy video and pretend tattoo, which seem a very long way from anything likely to be published by the royal palaces, are intended to grab attention for this winter's Invictus Games.
Trump has never even bothered to pretend he cares about anybody’s pain.
“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".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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