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	pretense
	reason [n]: forgivende [u] deception [n]: forestilling [u], hykleri [n], simulasjon [u] behavior [n]: affeksjon [u], koketteri [n] facade [n]: forkledning [u], fasade [u], mark [u]
	reason [n]: pretexto [m] deception [n]: disimulo [m], ocultación [f], finta [f] behavior [n]: afectación [f], pretensión [f] facade [n]: apariencia [f], fachada [f], máscara [f]
	reason [n]: förevändning [u] deception [n]: förställning [u], hyckleri [n], simulation [u] behavior [n]: affektation [u], koketteri [n] facade [n]: förklädnad [u], fasad [u], mask [u]

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[n]: pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning, deception [gt], deceit [gt], dissembling [gt], dissimulation [gt] [n]: pretence, feigning, dissembling, misrepresentation [gt], deceit [gt], deception [gt] [n]: pretence, make-believe, imagination [gt], imaging [gt], imagery [gt], mental imagery [gt] [n]: pretension, pretence, artificiality [gt] [n]: guise, pretence, pretext, semblance [gt], gloss [gt], color [gt], colour [gt]

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false pretense

Example:

To maintain the pretense that he was still a patient in the hospital.|We struggle against it, we fight to deny it but it is, of course, pretense.|But we're just living in the pretense of a marriage, responsibility you know, all these ideas of how people are supposed to live.|To tell you I no longer have any pretense to keep up.|No pretense.|Perhaps we can do without the pretense of the missing child now.

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	pretence
	presence
	pretend
	pretended
	pretender
	pratende
	prebende

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