Words and phrases that have a meaning related to pretenses: (128 results)
Often used in the same context:
pretensions, pretexts, 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, excuses, 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, showiness, gimmicks, shred, tawdriness, moralism, cynicism, immoderation, smidgeon, bafflegab, phantasm, amiability, pretense, pretences, pretence, pretension, pretext, pretentions, rationalizations, affectations, conventionalities, evasions, scruple, disguises, extravagances, illusions
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Also try:fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, ringer, role player, sham, shammer
— Adjectives for pretenses: false, various, mere, specious, hypocritical, frivolous, fraudulent, democratic, elaborate, vain, plausible, more...
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