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Sham :: Sham (v. i.) To make false pretenses; to deceive; to feign; to impose.

Religionism :: Religionism (n.) Affectation or pretense of religion.

Veil :: Veil (n.) A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.

Daubry :: Daubry (n.) A daubing; specious coloring; false pretenses.

Shoplifter :: Shoplifter (n.) One who steals anything in a shop, or takes goods privately from a shop; one who, under pretense of buying goods, takes occasion to steal..

Job :: Job (v. i.) To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.

Open :: Open (a.) Without reserve or false pretense; sincere; characterized by sincerity; unfeigned; frank; also, generous; liberal; bounteous; -- applied to personal appearance, or character, and to the expression of thought and feeling, etc..

Extinguish :: Extinguish (v. t.) To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right..

Dissemble :: Dissemble (v. t.) To put on the semblance of; to make pretense of; to simulate; to feign.

Sham :: Sham (v. t.) To trick; to cheat; to deceive or delude with false pretenses.

Pretenceless :: Pretenceless (a.) See Pretense, Pretenseful, Pretenseless..

Humbug :: Humbug (n.) An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.

Soldier :: Soldier (v. i.) To make a pretense of doing something, or of performing any task..

Under :: Under (prep.) Denoting relation to something that comprehends or includes, that represents or designates, that furnishes a cover, pretext, pretense, or the like; as, he betrayed him under the guise of friendship; Morpheus is represented under the figure of a boy asleep..

Pretenseless :: Pretenseless (a.) Not having or making pretenses.

Saintism :: Saintism (n.) The character or quality of saints; also, hypocritical pretense of holiness..

Cloak :: Cloak (n.) That which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense; a mask; a cover.

Veneer :: Veneer (v. t.) A thin leaf or layer of a more valuable or beautiful material for overlaying an inferior one, especially such a thin leaf of wood to be glued to a cheaper wood; hence, external show; gloss; false pretense..

Mountebankery :: Mountebankery (n.) The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.

Sincerity :: Sincerity (n.) The quality or state of being sincere; honesty of mind or intention; freedom from simulation, hypocrisy, disguise, or false pretense; sincereness..

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