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pretense
Found in thesaurus: deception, dissimulation, deceit, dissembling, misrepresentation, imagery, imaging, mental imagery, imagination, artificiality, semblance, gloss, colour, color
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pretense
s.
pretensión, demanda, reclamación; fingimiento, acto fingido, disimulo, hipocresía, simulación, solapa; actuación, afectación, ínfulas, melindre, presunción, remilgo; pretexto, socapa, socolor
v.
fingir; pretender; intentar; alegar falsamente
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pretense
pretensión
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under the pretense of
so pretexto de, con el pretexto de
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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.
