(n.) The act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption; pretension.
(n.) The act of holding out, or offering, to others something false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical; deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of patriotism; on pretense of revenging Caesar's death.
(n.) That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint.
(n.) Intention; design.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The ANC pretence that we don't have a social crisis in this country is quite ridiculous.
(2) Athens was unravelling into chaos, unable to form a government and forced into fresh elections , plunging the markets into freefall as Europe's leaders abandoned any pretence that a Greek exit from the euro might not be imminent.
(3) Jean Leston, transport policy manager of WWF-UK, said: "We're being sold airport expansion under false pretences.
(4) Neither Dave nor I seem able to keep up this pretence.
(5) To the seven million citizens who watched Liu’s slow death in equal parts horror and grief, any remaining pretence that modern China is a benevolent paternal state that has moved beyond a brutal response to political debate has been shattered once and for all.
(6) It solemnly proclaimed Ireland's independence, appointed ambassadors to the Peace Conference, where they have not yet been bidden, passed an address to the free nations of the world, and made some pretence of framing orders for its domestic procedure.
(7) In some instances, there was little pretence at hiding that resort to pressure – at least within US government circles.
(8) 'There are other correspondents on BBC radio eg John Pienaar who IMO [in my opinion] have given up any pretence of being impartial and seem to think their job is to criticise Gordon Brown.
(9) Since his hospitalisation, Musharraf has made no public appearances and there has been rampant speculation in the media that he would be evacuated from the country under a medical pretence.
(10) I make no pretence at being well-versed in politics – it is all too often about personalities and emotion – but I do know a thing or two about our constitution, as I once trained to be a lawyer.
(11) And let’s drop the pretence that the west did not effectively back jihadis in Syria either.
(12) Within 30 seconds any pretence was always unnecessary").
(13) On one hand, if the officers had faced charges, it would have drawn “a very clear line in the sand”, deterring future officers from having sex under false pretences on the basis that a rape charge could await them.
(14) "Unfortunately we've had in the region of 500-plus criminals – people hiding under the pretence of the TUC march – who have caused considerable damage, attacked police officers, attacked police vehicles and scared the general public.
(15) It accuses the letter's signatories of being "openly self-interested" and says: "Any pretence that the BBC is not similarly self-interested is at an end."
(16) The BBC presenter confided to the Radio Times that he shares widespread public disdain for the "tawdry pretences" of modern politicians and the "green-bench pantomime" of Westminster politics.
(17) Jones suggests that the great weight of international scientific opinion agreeing that warming is caused by human agency means the BBC need no longer quote balancing deniers when only "the pretence of debate remains".
(18) Blogger Yomi Adegoke said: "Thinly veiling vanity as philanthropy more than irks … the pretence these images are for anything other than an onslaught of 'natural beauty' acclamations, coupled with pats on the back for 'fighting the cause' makes the no makeup selfie mania even harder to stomach."
(19) Brecht provides a memorable montage of life in Nazi Germany where parents live in terror of being denounced by their son and where a Jewish wife, in order to protect her gentile husband, leaves him on the pretence of taking a holiday.
(20) After commenters reacted negatively to a video in which Doré and her friends referred to not eating dessert at lunch because of the need to fit into their fashion week outfits, Doré responded with a post attacking the double standards and dishonesty rife in the media, where ultra-slender actresses maintain a pretence of eating cheeseburgers.
Pretension
Definition:
(n.) The act of pretending, or laying claim; the act of asserting right or title.
(n.) A claim made, whether true or false; a right alleged or assumed; a holding out the appearance of possessing a certain character; as, pretensions to scholarship.
Example Sentences:
(1) Should Britain start behaving like the small island state it is rather than maintaining the pretensions of being a significant world player?
(2) The most important determinants of the behavior which connect the organism with its informational environment are pretensions to space, time, metabolism and changing of form.
(3) He is wary of pretension, alive to all shades of irony.
(4) The peculiar skill of HTB has been to preserve the confidence of the public-school officer class that it had a duty to lead, but to drop the surrounding pretensions, the idea being that what remains is professionalism and commitment.
(5) Preliminary results suggest that the effect produced by the distraction of ring pairs on interfragmentary micromotion is as significant as pretensioning of the wires.
(6) Using a strain gauged pretension device, a procedure for determining the natural state tension and extension fields in the skin has been developed.
(7) He was a poet of modest pretensions and, although his translation of Julius Caesar was not brilliant, he did, after all, dare to translate Shakespeare.
(8) The track, shamelessly mocking the pretensions of people who falsely associate themselves with the fashions and styles of the sprauncy Gangnam district of Seoul – a kind of South Korean Beverly Hills – has been called a "force for world peace" by the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon .
(9) Only one party with pretensions to government made the wrong choice; the Conservative Party of Britain.
(10) Leslie (1987b) proposed a new, metarepresentational model for the cognition of pretense.
(11) They were victims of a swatting attack, a malicious form of hoax where special weapons and tactics (Swat) teams are called to a victim’s home under false pretenses, with potentially deadly results.
(12) In fact, wet deposition has long been hailed as a possible solution by higher powers, with their lofty pretensions to control the elements.
(13) "I love the grunge, the lack of pretension and the simpler way of life," says the Manchester-born DJ and record producer, better known as A Guy Called Gerald, who helped to shape the acid house scene in the 1980s.
(14) Two explanations for this breakdown in the belief-desire reasoning subserving pretense are considered.
(15) To the extent they acknowledged any of this at all, their responses ranged from indulging patently absurd pretenses (this was just a polite request from the White House: what's wrong with that?)
(16) One need not be a supporter of China’s provocative and aggressive actions in the South China Sea to notice that the incident did not involve a Chinese nuclear-capable bomber in the Caribbean, or off the coast of California, where China has no pretensions of establishing a “Chinese lake”.
(17) This, too, is perpetual disaster capitalism, creating havoc and inflicting disaster upon individual souls for corporate greed without even needing the pretense of a crisis for an excuse.
(18) What I don’t like is the pretense and the assumption that someway or another Hackney needs to be grateful for all these up-and-coming industries.
(19) Clegg will insist that the Lib Dems have already replaced Labour as the country's leading "progressive" party and scoff at Tory pretensions to the same label.
(20) In the individual case with a provable causality of trauma on the acceleration of tumor progress a pretension for insurance es legal.