Sentence examples for pretend interest from inspiring English sources
The phrase "pretend interest" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when describing someone or something that is appearing to show interest even though they may not actually be interested. For example, "She nodded along with his story, pretending interest even though she had heard it all before."
*** In Portsmouth, Jon Adams talks about what many autistic people call "passing": like Andrews' pretend interest in Australian soaps and techno pets, it's about managing to blend in, even if that means submerging whole chunks of your personality.
a pub looks good at 2 in the afternoon cool, dark, empty one soul sits the Barmaid cranes up to see an already-played soccer game conversation is long since past I order a cold draft, pretend interest in soccer "I'll be over there soon," the lone soul offers.
In the evening, trains will be littered with abandoned newspaper sports pages, all pretending interest in the football transfers.
While Guay and Ruest pretended interest, he told them at some length how to kill fish with lime, and then departed.
Edith hated attention when it was really obliquely aimed at her mother, and she would be rude or destructive rather than endure any pretended interest.
Yes, his pretended interest in certain policy-adjacent attitudes protectionism, restrictionism, nationalism, etc. corresponds nicely to the concerns of whole swaths of perennially underserved Republican constituencies.
Contostavlos insisted throughout that she had been entrapped and only pretended an interest in drugs to play up to a "bad girl" image seemingly sought by the producers for the role.
Don't pretend to show interest in the things you don't find interesting anymore when you speak with your friend.
Housing starts have since collapsed by 90% and the struggling banks can no longer "extend and pretend" the unpaid interest on the colossal loans advanced to developers.
It is important to have elite scientific research, but we should not pretend that the interests of scientists perfectly overlap with the public interest.
Here's how I define H.R. Happy: Bosses are at least superficially nice and periodically pretend to be interested in employees as people.
