Sentence examples for is pretense from inspiring English sources
noun
A false or hypocritical profession, as, under pretense of friendliness.
Their strength is pretense.
Prospect has all the ambition of some of the city's best restaurants; the only thing lacking is pretense.
Yet I also realize that whatever I say about these soldiers' experience is pretense: I can never truly know this war.
But even more importantly, the legal argument is pretense, an excuse to allow five business conservatives to undo a key piece of legislation that did huge work in giving more Americans the power to vote and govern themselves, but made it harder for business conservatives to win elections.
He said "I had two voices in my brain; the evil voice saying 'these white mofos are just pretending to like me and they really they hate me and the clapping is pretense.' The other voice was saying 'just take it at face value', but the evil voice was winning out".
He knew he wasn't coming and he was just, it was pretense.
There is no pretense to naturalism.
There is no pretense in "Deadwood".
There is no pretense that this is a real trip.
The fictitious part is the pretense of procedure.
