pretense

pretense (Ostentation), noun affectation, affectedness, airs, artificiality, blatancy, bravado, demonstration, display, empty show, false appearance, false show, fanfaronade, flagrancy, flashiness, flourish, fuss, garishness, gaudiness, glare, glitter, grandiosity, histrionics, impressive effect, insincerity, loftiness, mockery, obtrusiveness, ostentatio, ostentatiousness, outward show, panache, parade, pomp, pomposity, pompousness, pose, pretension, sham, show, showiness, splash, splurge, theatricality, unnaturalness, window-dressing

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pretense (Pretext), noun appearance, beguilement, bluff, camouflage, cheat, claim, cloak, color, cover, deceit, disguise, duplicity, empty words, excuse, fabrication, false appearance, false plea, false show, falsehood, falseness, falsification, feint, forgery, fraud, fraudulence, guise, hoax, hypocrisy, imitation, invention, lie, mask, mendacity, ostensible purpose, ostensible reason, plea, professed purpose, ruse, semblance, sham, show, simulation, simulatione, subterfuge, trick, trickery, untruth
Associated concepts: false pretnese, fraudulent pretense, larreny by false pretense

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See also: appearance, artifice, bad faith, color, counterfeit, cover, deceit, disguise, excuse, false pretense, falsehood, falsification, fraud, histrionics, hoax, hypocrisy, imposture, indirection, look, misstatement, pretext, rodomontade, role, sham, story, subterfuge