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pretence
Found in thesaurus: artificiality, semblance, gloss, colour, color, deception, misrepresentation, deceit, imagery, imaging, mental imagery, imagination, dissimulation, dissembling
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pretence
s.
pretensión, fingimiento, reclamación; simulacro; pretexto, socapa, socolor; afectación, ostentación; procedimiento fraudulento
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pretence [pretense, -USA]
(n.) = pretensión, pretexto, fingimiento, excusa, teatro.
Ex: Automated cataloging support systems, with any pretense to sophistication, did not begin to appear until the inception of the LC/MARC II (Library of Congress/Machine-Readable Cataloging) project in late 1967.
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* false pretence = falso pretexto, falsa pretensión, pretexto, excusa, mentira.
* make + pretence = pretender, intentar.
Ex: Automated cataloging support systems, with any pretense to sophistication, did not begin to appear until the inception of the LC/MARC II (Library of Congress/Machine-Readable Cataloging) project in late 1967.
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* false pretence = falso pretexto, falsa pretensión, pretexto, excusa, mentira.
* make + pretence = pretender, intentar.
