pretenses Definition

pretension, feigning, pretending, dissembling, pretence, make-believe, simulation, pretensions, pretexts, excuses, grounds, pretences, guise, illusion, veneer, artifice, pieties, charade, pseudo, trappings, frippery, subterfuges, fig leaf, notions, semblance, expedients, justifications, sophistries, pretentiousness, scruples, roguery, attitudinizing, grandiloquence, mummery, mockeries, impostures, sophism, harlotry, coquetry, haughtiness, smokescreen, falseness, platitudes, dissimulation, pompousness, potemkin village, piousness, insinuations, niceties, flummery, mendacities, insubstantiality, conceit, fustiness, speciousness, nonsense, flatteries, hokum, hyperboles, claptrap, dilettantism, virtuousness, neutralism, wishfulness, fictions, simulacrum, incuriosity, civilities, cloak, popinjay, expedience, frivolousness, modicum, blandishments, pomposity, ingratiation, unseemliness, grubbiness, politesse, loathsomeness, compromises, knowingness, fatuousness, gimmickry, poseur, sanctimoniousness, circumlocution, nostrums, subversiveness, demagogy, insipidness, preachment, nefariousness, delusion, atavism, bombast, ploys, bluster, glibness, vestiges,