pretense in the PONS Dictionary

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Most importantly, they betray an absence of pretense.
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Before she can let go of pretense, she must first deal with a psychotic husband, a loveless second marriage, and her child's crib death.
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They felt they had paid protection money under false pretenses.
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The bill includes a prohibition against recording image or sound from an agricultural operation without consent and obtaining access to that operation under false pretenses.
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Author argues for gender sensitivity to proclaim the differences between men and woman with a kind of pretense that all are same and equal.
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His quip that he was there under false pretenses was greeted by much laughter.
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As the forcible nature of the campaign became routine, the pretense of voluntary resettlement was dropped.
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While the events of the author's life are recounted, there is no pretense of exact truth.
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Critics praised its humor and his ability to observe the false pretenses of bourgeois society.
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Such planets are often described with no pretense to scientific accuracy; their strange characteristics are primarily intended to amuse.
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