pretended
pree ten duhd
- v make believe with the intent to deceive
- v behave unnaturally or affectedly
- v put forward a claim and assert right or possession of
- v put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
- 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 - s adopted in order to deceive
a pretended interest
- I also remember the day when I began to blub as he read the report of a Chilean torture victim, a woman who watched her children be tortured; I pretended not to be blubbing, and he .
- They pretended they were Sicilian gangsters, and they gave themselves namesCameo, Twenty Years, The Prince (Mailer, of course)and they talked tough and dirty at each other .
- At a recent meeting with newspaper editors in Washington, McCain pretended to fall asleep when asked about his age.