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📖 Определения и значения для слова pretence

📒 the act of behaving in a particular way, in order to make other people believe something that is not true

  • Their friendliness was only pretence.
  • pretence of doing something By the end of the evening she had abandoned all pretence of being interested.
  • pretence of something He made no pretence of great musical knowledge.

📒 a claim that you have a particular quality or skill

  • pretence (to something) A judge should have at least some pretence to objectivity.
  • pretence (to doing something) I make no pretence to being an expert on the subject.

📒 by pretending to be something that you are not, in order to gain some advantage for yourself

  • She was accused of obtaining money under false pretences.
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