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SIMULATION |
Pretending |
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PLAYACTING |
Pretending |
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CLAIMING |
Pretending |
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FEIGNING |
Pretending |
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PLAY-ACTING |
Pretending (4-6) |
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FLIRTING |
Pretending to love |
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DISSIMULATE |
Feigning; simulating; pretending. |
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PRETENDENCE |
The act of pretending; pretense. |
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PYTHONIC |
Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events. |
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WOULD-BE |
Desiring or professing to be; vainly pretending to be;
as, a would-be poet. |
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PRETENSION |
The act of pretending, or laying claim; the act of
asserting right or title. |
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AFFECTED |
Given to false show; assuming or pretending to
possess what is not natural or real. |
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CONSEQUENTIAL |
Assuming or exhibiting an air of consequence;
pretending to importance; pompous; self-important; as, a consequential
man. See Consequence, n., 4. |
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QUACK |
Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension;
used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a
quack doctor. |
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CULTRIVOROUS |
Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to
swallow, knives; -- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have
seemed to swallow, knives with impunity. |
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CATHARIST |
One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like
than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See
Albigenses. |
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PERFECTIONIST |
One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending
to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to
moral perfection and sinlessness in this life. |
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DUPLICITY |
...tained
form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to
entertain one of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad
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PRETERITION |
A figure by which, in pretending to pass over
anything, a summary mention of it is made; as, "I will not say, he is
valiant, he is learned, he is just." Called also paraleipsis. |
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MALINGERER |
...r who
induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty;
hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or
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