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Sanctimony :: Sanctimony (n.) Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity; especially, outward or artificial saintliness; assumed or pretended holiness; hypocritical devoutness..

Illuminate :: Illuminate (n.) One who enlightened; esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge..

Psilosopher :: Psilosopher (n.) A superficial or narrow pretender to philosophy; a sham philosopher.

Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to simulate; to feign; as, to pretend friendship..

Icon :: Icon (n.) An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.

Pretended :: Pretended (imp. & p. p.) of Preten.

Pretender :: Pretender (n.) One who lays claim, or asserts a title (to something); a claimant..

Empiric :: Empiric (n.) One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan..

Affecter :: Affecter (n.) One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after..

Quiz :: Quiz (v. t.) To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions..

Pretend :: Pretend (v. i.) To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or performing; to profess; to make believe; to feign; to sham; as, to pretend to be asleep..

Intend :: Intend (v. t.) To pretend; to counterfeit; to simulate.

Assume :: Assume (v. t.) To pretend to possess; to take in appearance.

Diviner :: Diviner (n.) One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means..

Feigned :: Feigned (a.) Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false.

Adventurer :: Adventurer (n.) A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.

Feign :: Feign (v. t.) To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true..

Pretendingly :: Pretendingly (adv.) As by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously.

Pseudo- :: Pseudo- () A combining form or prefix signifying false, counterfeit, pretended, spurious; as, pseudo-apostle, a false apostle; pseudo-clergy, false or spurious clergy; pseudo-episcopacy, pseudo-form, pseudo-martyr, pseudo-philosopher. Also used adjectively..

Theologaster :: Theologaster (n.) A pretender or quack in theology.

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