Sentence examples for decent pretence from inspiring English sources

That points to a more potent cause of segregation than opening a handful of new state Muslim schools: if Christians (or those who can put up a decent pretence) don't like what they see in a local secular school, they can abandon it to others, fostering in effect an ethnic ghetto.

Just about anyone with a few assets and a half decent income can get a loan for investment purposes despite the pretence of "tighter" lending conditions.

So rather than get in trouble all over again, hapless Bill has to look after his boys and pretend to be a decent bloke and single dad for the authorities' benefit – and discovers it might not be a pretence after all.

No pretence".

Cut the pretence.

Promises, pretence, subterfuge.

But the pretence is slipping.

But the pretence is wearing thin.

It makes no pretence to intelligence.

But not all pretence is culpable.

It is time to end the pretence.