pretend (redirected from pretending)

pretend verb act, affect, assume, be deceitful, be hypocritical, beguile, bemask, bluff, cheat, claim falsely, counterfeit, cozen, deceive, delude, disguise, dissemble, dissimulate, dupe, fake, falsify, feign, fingere, fool, give a false appearance, hide under a mask, hoodwink, imagine, imitate, impersonate, lie, make a pretext of, make a show, make believe, malinger, mask, masquerade, mimic, mislead, misrepresent, pass off, perform, play, play act, play false, portray, present falsely, prevaricate, profess, put on, put on a false front, seem, sham, simulate, twist the truth

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See also: claim, cloak, copy, deceive, demand, evade, fabricate, fake, false, falsify, feign, imitate, invent, lie, misrepresent, mock, palter, prevaricate, purport, simulate, specious, spurious