pretense Definition

pretension, feigning, pretending, dissembling, pretence, make-believe, guise, simulation, charade, pretext, excuse, sham, facade, claim, camouflage, contention, comedy, signboard, airs, artifice, illusion, semblance, subterfuge, conceit, pretentiousness, pomposity, dissimulation, objectivity, ruse, affectation, sophistry, bombast, superficiality, imposture, pretensions, veneer, modicum, frippery, fig leaf, scruples, nonsense, sense, cloak, trappings, pseudo, justification, pompousness, schtick, gentlemanliness, silliness, delusion, charlatanical, sophism, sanctimony, blatancy, smidgeon, compunctions, smidgen, notion, smokescreen, politesse, knowingness, claptrap, niceties, misapprehension, shtick, conventionality, cynicism, moralism, arrogative, rationality, blandness, platitudes, blather, pieties, haughtiness, agreeability, condescension, pretex, didacticism, slyness, frivolity, unseemliness, virtuousness, moralizing, flummery, gimmickry, rubric, harlotry, bullshit, browbeating, uptightness, cravenness, sentimentality, hokum, bluster, sanctimoniousness, morality, sentimentalism, deviousness,