Sentence examples for pretends to refuse from inspiring English sources

Accismus, a form of irony in which a person feigns indifference to or pretends to refuse something he or she desires.

Mark - the student, not the lecturer - saw the opportunity for comedy and pretended to refuse the apology.

But of course, at the time fashion did not yet hold the power it has today, they would have probably pretended to refuse the compromising in fear to kill the boho dance, while today, an artist association with a luxury brand is regarded as the highest reward.

There's a feral quality to Marrakech's packed main square and you never know what might happen next, including having a snake thrust under your nose, or being emotionally blackmailed by a child hawker who pretends to cry when you refuse to buy a packet of tissues you don't need.

So Asta now pretends to be pretending.

One woman pretends to weep.

Nobody even pretends to know.

Many of us play pretend, refusing to consider our own demise.

Then there are those of us who refuse to pretend to be anything other than who we are, who we were created to be.

The teenager du jour who was pretending to be my bank manager refused to take on board that as a freelancer I get paid irregularly, so in months where nobody's coughing up I've still got to pay the rent, food bills, car bills, new shoes for our son … My only option, surely, is to buy the new bloody camera, increase my revenue stream and work my way out of this mess job by job?

It's more than unfortunate that students are shamed and punished for refusing to pretend to care when they don't.