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pretend
verb as in fake, falsify
Strong matches
act, affect, allege, beguile, cheat, claim, counterfeit, cozen, deceive, delude, dissemble, dissimulate, dupe, fish, fudge, hoodwink, jazz, jive, malinger, masquerade, mislead, sham, simulate, stonewall, sucker, whitewash
Weak matches
be deceitful, be hypocritical, claim falsely, fake out, lay claim, let on, make out, pass off, pass oneself off as, put up a front
verb as in play the part of
Strongest matches
Weak matches
assume the role, make as if, make believe, make out like, make up, put on a front, put on airs, put on an act
Example Sentences
In other words, Donald Trump needs crime, so he can pretend to save us from it.
There are a couple of nominations coming up this week that may give those Republican senators an opportunity to pretend to themselves that they still have some integrity, and a chance to salvage some self-respect.
Charlotte, who has lived in London her whole life, had pretended she was from Abergavenny, in Monmouthshire, and put on a Welsh accent throughout the series.
Only Charlotte, a contestant in gameshow The Traitors, isn't really Welsh and their "victim" was pretending not to be a priest until episode five.
They rarely paused to ask why someone who isn't racist would be fine with merely "pretending" to be racist, especially since acting like a racist tends to mean people see you as a racist.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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