pretense

But one of them has run a ragged, undisciplined and often listless campaign, increasingly focused on blatantly false claims and hateful invective, and without the slightest pretense of “moderation” or unifying rhetoric.

In the campaign’s final week, Trump returned to New York to feed his ego and the hate of a party that seems to have lost all pretense of wanting a democracy.

During his presidency, he wanted to use the Insurrection Act to command the United States military to crush dissent under the pretense of stopping “political protests” and “riots.”

It’s almost a pity that they have to maintain the shaky pretense of being British.

The indictment, unsealed last week, alleges that Combs and his associates lured female victims, often under the pretense of a romantic relationship.