Words and phrases that have a meaning related to pretense: (158 results)
Often used in the same context:
guise, pretensions, illusion, charade, artifice, veneer, semblance, pretext, modicum, conceit, frippery, fig leaf, scruples, pomposity, pretentiousness, nonsense, subterfuge, sense, cloak, trappings, pseudo, dissimulation, justification, objectivity, pompousness, bombast, schtick, gentlemanliness, silliness, delusion, sophism, sanctimony, blatancy, smidgeon, compunctions, smidgen, notion, smokescreen, politesse, excuse, knowingness, claptrap, niceties, misapprehension, ruse, shtick, conventionality, cynicism, affectation, moralism, superficiality, rationality, blandness, platitudes, blather, pieties, haughtiness, agreeability, condescension, imposture, didacticism, slyness, frivolity, unseemliness, virtuousness, moralizing, flummery, gimmickry, rubric, harlotry, sophistry, browbeating, uptightness, cravenness, sentimentality, hokum, bluster, sanctimoniousness, morality, sentimentalism, deviousness, simulacrum, poseur, palaver, showiness, smugness, puerility, aura, nefariousness, fustiness, maidenly, tactfulness, cleverness, shred, euphemisms, roguery, grubbiness, niceness, salaciousness, legalism, banalities, pretence, pretenses, pretences, pretexts, pretension, excuses, sham, mystification, scruple, disguise, humbug, rationalizations, conventionalities
More specific:
appearance, bluff, hypocrisy, lip service, make-believe, mannerism, masquerade, pose, show, stalking-horse
Appears in the definition of:
affectation, affectedness, bluff, divination, doggie bag, doggy bag, finespun, foretelling, fortune telling, gilded, make-believe, mannerism, meretricious, pose, pretend, professedly, simplicity, sincerely, soothsaying, specious, truly, unfeignedly
More general:
artificiality, deceit, deception, dissembling, imagery, imagination, imaging, mental imagery, misrepresentation
Synonyms:
Also try:feigning, pretending, simulation
— Adjectives for pretense: false, mere, little, such, slightest, mutual, elaborate, only, hypocritical, social, more, more...
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