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

Assumer :: Assumer (n.) One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes..

Philosophaster :: Philosophaster (n.) A pretender to philosophy.

Pretex :: Pretex (v. t.) To frame; to devise; to disguise or excuse; hence, to pretend; to declare falsely..

Spurious :: Spurious (a.) Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate..

Malingerer :: Malingerer (n.) In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability..

Pretence :: Pretence (n.) That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint..

Homely :: Homely (n.) Plain; unpretending; rude in appearance; unpolished; as, a homely garment; a homely house; homely fare; homely manners..

Reformalize :: Reformalize (v. i.) To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.

Pretender :: Pretender (n.) One who pretends, simulates, or feigns..

Strokesman :: Stroker (n.) One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking..

Backare :: Backare (interj.) Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess..

Pretendence :: Pretendence (n.) The act of pretending; pretense.

Magic :: Magic (a.) A comprehensive name for all of the pretended arts which claim to produce effects by the assistance of supernatural beings, or departed spirits, or by a mastery of secret forces in nature attained by a study of occult science, including enchantment, conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, incantation, etc..

Duplicity :: Duplicity (n.) Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith..

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

Divination :: Divination (n.) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means.

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

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..

Theurgist :: Theurgist (n.) One who pretends to, or is addicted to, theurgy..

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