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–noun Chiefly British.

pretense.

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n. Chiefly British
Variant of pretense.

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pretence
noun
1.	a false or unsupportable quality [syn: pretension]
2.	an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them" [syn: guise]
3.	pretending with intention to deceive [syn: pretense]
4.	imaginative intellectual play [syn: pretense]
5.	the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending" [syn: pretense]

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preˈtence [-s] noun

(an) act of pretending
Example: Under the pretence of friendship, he persuaded her to get into his car.

Arabic:	تَظاهُر، زَعْم، إدِّعاء
Chinese (Simplified):	假装
Chinese (Traditional):	假裝
Czech:	záminka
Danish:	foregivelse
Dutch:	voorwendsel
Estonian:	ettekääne
Finnish:	varjolla
French:	prétexte
German:	die Vortäuschung
Greek:	προσποίηση, πρόσχημα, πρόφαση
Icelandic:	uppgerð, látalæti
Indonesian:	kepura-puraan
Italian:	simulazione, pretesto

Japanese:	見せかけ
Latvian:	iztēlošanās; izlikšanās; maskēšanās
Lithuanian:	apsimetimas
Norwegian:	påskudd
Polish:	pozór
Portuguese (Brazil):	pretexto
Portuguese (Portugal):	fingimento
Russian:	притворство, обман
Slovak:	zámienka
Slovenian:	pretveza
Spanish:	pretexto
Swedish:	förevändning, svepskäl, sken
Turkish:	sahte tavır, yapmacık, numara