23 Verbs to Use for the Word pretense

Ever since the Sunday morning of the automobile ride, Shade Buckheath had been making elaborate pretense of having forgotten that such a person as Johnnie Consadine existed.

But he seemed willing to follow her lead to lighter matters, and for the rest of their excursion they carried out the pretense that there was nothing like a cloud in their sky.

Suddenly Mr. Lanley dropped all pretense of not coming, and said he would be there at eight.

After a pause, I said: "Well, as you both know all about it, it's no good keeping up pretenses.

As for the rising generation, ne'er Has youth displayed such arrogant pretense.

Adelaide had almost said "to buy him"; she had a sense that it was her duty to disregard Janet's pretenses, and "buy" was so exactly the word to use with these people to whom money was the paramount consideration, the thought behind every other thought, the feeling behind every other feeling, the mainspring of their lives, the mainstay of all the fictions of their aristocracy.

To meet and be introduced as the strangers they were supposed by the rest of the family to be, to elaborate the pretense that this was what they werethey who had shared those flaming moments while Paula sang!would be ridiculous and disgusting.

With rebellion thus sugar coated they have been drugging the public mind of their section for more than thirty years, and until at length they have brought many good men to a willingness to take up arms against the Government the day after some assemblage of men have enacted the farcical pretense of taking their State out of the Union who could have been brought to no such thing the day before.

We looked down the arched passage; not wishing to purchase any wine, we could find no pretense for entering.

She hated all pretense and display, and the slightest symptom of them in others shut her up and kept her grave and silent, and this, not from a severe or Pharisaic spirit, but because the atmosphere was so foreign to her that she could not live in it.

But he could not penetrate her pretense of concern.

To perfect her pretense, she should have risen, shaken hands cheerfully with him, and sent him carelessly away.

At last we reached a pretense of a villagea little cluster of half-a-dozen thatched stone huts enclosed within one fence of thorn and cactus.

There was not, of course, Sylvia reflected, the slightest pretense of obscurity between them as to what, under the circumstances, her business was.

It is an agreeable circumstance in this adjustment that the terms are in conformity with the previously ascertained views of the claimants themselves, thus removing all pretense for a future agitation of the subject in any form.

Whoever faced a Roman gladiator under the critical gaze of a crowd that knew all the points of fighting and could instantly detect, and did instantly resent pretense, fraud, trickery, the poor condition of one combatant or the unwillingness of one man to have at another in deadly earnest, had to be not only in the pink of bodily condition but a fighter such as no drunken sensualist could ever hope to be.

And Frederick possessed qualities which made this only too easy: carelessness, excitability, and, above all, boundless pride, which did not always scorn pretense and ended by doing its utmost to escape possible disgrace, by trying to realize what it first had pretended to possess.

Exasperated, and suspecting a pretense, Inman consented to a brief postponement of the attack.

She abandoned pretense.

But her reply tore all pretense aside.

She therefore thought Arthur as unpractical as he so fashionably professed, thought he accepted without reservation "our set's" pretenses of aristocracy for appearance's sake.

Can a classwhatever its pretense to culture may becan a class, that, in story and picture and music and play, counts greatest in art those who most effectively arouse the basest passions of which the human being is capable, be rightly judged sane?

Pitilessly he pierced their enchanted walls, discovering their pretense, burning away their shadowy glory, baring them for what they weremasses of jumbled rock and splintered spires; rain-gutted wraiths of clay, volcanic rock, the tumbled malpais and the tufa of the land.

23 Verbs to Use for the Word  pretense