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词汇 pretended
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Definition of pretended in English:

pretended

adjective 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:

pretended

adjectiveprəˈtɛndədprəˈtendəd
  • 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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