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
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
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
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