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Dissemble :: Dissemble (v. i.) To conceal the real fact, motives, /tention, or sentiments, under some pretense; to assume a false appearance; to act the hypocrite..

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..

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

Make-believe :: Make-believe (n.) A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention..

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

Pretext :: Pretext (n.) Ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color or cover for the real reason or motive; pretense; disguise.

Pretensed :: Pretensed (a.) Pretended; feigned.

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

Pretenseful :: Pretenseful (a.) Abounding in pretenses.

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

Pretence :: Pretence (n.) The act of holding out, or offering, to others something false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical; deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of patriotism; on pretense of revenging Caesar's death..

Stalkless :: Stalking-horse (n.) Fig.: Something used to cover up a secret project; a mask; a pretense.

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

Trumpery :: Trumpery (n.) Something serving to deceive by false show or pretense; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish..

Pretense :: Pretense (n.) Alt. of Pretenc.

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

Mountebank :: Mountebank (v. t.) To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.

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..

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..

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

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