pretend
pree tend
- n the enactment of a pretense
it was just pretend - v make believe with the intent to deceive
- v behave unnaturally or affectedly
- v put forward a claim and assert right or possession of
pretend the title of King - v put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong - v represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
- v state insincerely
She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber
She pretends to be an expert on wine - s imagined as in a play
dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish
- Sure, you can pretend you're offsetting Western greenhouse pollution by supposedly cleaning up a dirty coal plant in China.
- As boys will, they fell into a game of let's pretend.
- The website for people who like to pretend that their pets suffer injustice and oppression under the Eastern Bloc.