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Definition von i., i̇ng., bak. pretense im Türkisch Englisch wörterbuch
- pretence
- : An act of pretending or pretension; a false claim or pretext
That part of education that turned up in the latest phase of our argument, the cross-examination of the empty pretence of wisdom, is none other, we must declare, than the true-blooded kind of sophistry.
- pre·tence pretences in AM, use pretense1. A pretence is an action or way of behaving that is intended to make people believe something that is not true. Welland made a pretence of writing a note in his pad We have to go along with the pretence that things are getting better
- That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint
- Intention; design
- an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"
- the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"
- imaginative intellectual play
- a false or unsupportable quality
- {i} feigning, pretending; false show, false appearance; pretending, make-believe; claim, assertion
- An act of pretending or pretension; a false claim or pretext
- The act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption; pretension
- pretending with intention to deceive
- If you do something under false pretences, you do it when people do not know the truth about you and your intentions. I could not go on living with a man who had married me under false pretences
- See Pretense, Pretenseful, Pretenseless
- The act of holding out, or offering, to others something false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical; deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of patriotism; on pretense of revenging Cæsar's death
i., i̇ng., bak. pretense
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