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Definition of pretended in English: pretendedadjective prɪˈtɛndɪdprəˈtɛndəd Not genuine; assumed. eating ice cream with pretended unconcern Example sentencesExamples - His whole behavior gives color to the supposition that he was the accomplice of a pretended death.
- I accept no responsibility whatsoever for any psychological traumas, mishaps, misfortunes, or bad karma alleged to result from viewing this site, whether real, imaginary or pretended.
- While his heart thumped eagerly he went with slow and pretended reluctance back to the old desk.
- It would be a very fragile moral and political order that depended upon pretended ignorance of social facts.
- When he tried her fidelity by telling her pretended secrets, she divulged them in gossip with the servants.
- The pretended purpose of it was to encourage the manufactures, and to increase the commerce of Great Britain.
- Even pretended disinterest can destroy thought, or pretended interest can give room for ideas to coalesce.
- All the holiness of their lives, I now saw, was merely pretended.
- These pretended journeys to France were rather cumbrous.
- As the subject increased the imaginary voltage, the man who was supposed to have his memory improved screamed in pretended pain.
- She blushed and looked away with pretended indifference.
- And he is telling us today with pretended pride that he will do it all over again.
- In classical rhetoric it denotes real or pretended doubt about an issue, uncertainty as to how to proceed in a discourse.
- In summary, some pretended joy and some very unhappy people.
- At each execution of a traitor, or pretended such, anguish seizes the survivors.
- She moved from pretended self-sufficiency to a recognition of her need.
- Suzie's crew invaded the stage in a fit of pretended madness and simply kicked the daylights out of each other.
- Honest dissent is better by far than pretended assent.
- She divided the bun in half, giving him the largest portion, and was rewarded with a bit of pretended reluctance and a big smile.
Definition of pretended in US English: pretendedadjectiveprəˈtɛndədprəˈtendəd Not genuine; assumed. she interrupted him with pretended indignation Example sentencesExamples - Honest dissent is better by far than pretended assent.
- All the holiness of their lives, I now saw, was merely pretended.
- His whole behavior gives color to the supposition that he was the accomplice of a pretended death.
- These pretended journeys to France were rather cumbrous.
- As the subject increased the imaginary voltage, the man who was supposed to have his memory improved screamed in pretended pain.
- The pretended purpose of it was to encourage the manufactures, and to increase the commerce of Great Britain.
- Suzie's crew invaded the stage in a fit of pretended madness and simply kicked the daylights out of each other.
- She moved from pretended self-sufficiency to a recognition of her need.
- It would be a very fragile moral and political order that depended upon pretended ignorance of social facts.
- While his heart thumped eagerly he went with slow and pretended reluctance back to the old desk.
- And he is telling us today with pretended pride that he will do it all over again.
- She divided the bun in half, giving him the largest portion, and was rewarded with a bit of pretended reluctance and a big smile.
- Even pretended disinterest can destroy thought, or pretended interest can give room for ideas to coalesce.
- At each execution of a traitor, or pretended such, anguish seizes the survivors.
- In classical rhetoric it denotes real or pretended doubt about an issue, uncertainty as to how to proceed in a discourse.
- She blushed and looked away with pretended indifference.
- I accept no responsibility whatsoever for any psychological traumas, mishaps, misfortunes, or bad karma alleged to result from viewing this site, whether real, imaginary or pretended.
- In summary, some pretended joy and some very unhappy people.
- When he tried her fidelity by telling her pretended secrets, she divulged them in gossip with the servants.
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