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Synonyms for pretended
prɪˈtɛn dɪdpre·tend·ed
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Princeton's WordNet
assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, shamadjective
adopted in order to deceive
"an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"
Synonyms:
off-key, fancied, fake, mistaken, imitation, sour, delusive, fictive, simulated, put on, fictional, assumed, false, faux, fictitious, sham, fabricated, untrue
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "pretended":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2392 | false | |
#5373 | assumed | |
#6134 | fake | |
#11083 | simulated | |
#12027 | sour | |
#13465 | faux | |
#15666 | mistaken | |
#17637 | imitation | |
#18000 | fabricated | |
#18142 | fictional | |
#20014 | sham | |
#27219 | fictitious | |
#30218 | untrue | |
#33694 | pretended | |
#42285 | faked | |
#50752 | fancied | |
#121604 | fictive | |
#203636 | delusive |
How to use pretended in a sentence?
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest.
The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.
Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it,’ the dwarf had told him smiling. The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice as Samwell Tarly had.
Joe Biden campaigned for president as a moderate, but on virtually every issue he has governed like a woke left-wing zealot, by opposing Biden’s multi-trillion dollar socialist boondoggle, Manchin is governing like the sane moderate Democrat that Biden pretended to be on the campaign trail.
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