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Word "PRETENCE" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
an artful or simulated semblance
Synonyms:
guise, pretense, pretext

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
pretending with intention to deceive
Synonyms:
dissembling, feigning, pretense

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a false or unsupportable quality
Synonyms:
pretense, pretension

Crossword Clues for PRETENCE

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Clue Source Date
Half make a comeback among the coppers, but it's all a sham (8)
Peter turned, once beheaded, but it was a sham (8)
Dissembling or make-believe (8)
Claim money round about the end of August
Charade Mirror Tea Time 14 Feb 2024
Company research taking place in British capital (8)
Fake bit of help re ten cents (8)
Make-believe; erect pen (anag.) The Telegraph Quick 11 Sep 2023
Giving a false appearance The Guardian Quick 06 May 2023
Show in reconstructed PE centre The Times Cryptic 21 Dec 2022
Show recent changes in gym The Times Cryptic 19 Oct 2022
Make-believe The Telegraph Quick 07 Sep 2022
Show The Times Concise 16 Jan 2022
Show in church after 9:59? The Telegraph Toughie 15 Dec 2021
Show off crêpe, draped round figure
Make-believe Irish Times Simplex 23 Aug 2021
Awful creep, about ten, behaving insincerely The Telegraph Cryptic 06 May 2021
  About time to stop vice-president making false claim
Show on television initially in the money
Make-believe Irish Times Simplex 18 Sep 2020
Play-acting in gym over centre spread? Irish Times Crosaire 28 Apr 2020
It's just make-believe, if 12-year-old hides a tablet at church
Recent changes in gym are a sham
Make-believe The Times Concise 01 Jun 2018
Sham coins round about end of August The Sun Two Speed 31 Mar 2018
Affectation The Sun Two Speed 31 Mar 2018
Claim represented by, say, nine Anglicans
Creep nervously round trap, lifting cover
Creep nervously round trap, lifting cover
Act of make-believe The Times Concise 13 Nov 2015
Retired, overwhelmed by change? That's affectation
Repent awkwardly going to church? Don't believe a word of it! Irish Times Crosaire 26 Mar 2015
False show, British style.
Mere ostentation: Var.
Artifice: Var.
Sham.
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