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  1. 1. n the act of giving a false appearance n pretending with intention to deceive n imaginative intellectual play n a false or unsupportable quality n an artful or simulated semblance Source: ecdict

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falsepretendingactappearanceartfuldeceivegivingimaginativeintellectualintentionplayqualitysemblancesimulatedunsupportable

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pretender'spretenderspretendershippretendinglypretendspretensepretensedpretensefulpretenseless

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