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Dissimulates
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pretends
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vb. (en-third-person singular of: pretend )
Usage examples of pretends.
A Platonist who pretends that one is able to live with a young woman of whom one is fond, without becoming more than her friend, is a visionary who knows not what he says.
She longs to see you, for she pretends to know you, and says that you are not what you seem.
A certain philosophy, full of consolation, and in perfect accord with religion, pretends that the state of dependence in which the soul stands in relation to the senses and to the organs, is only incidental and transient, and that it will reach a condition of freedom and happiness when the death of the body shall have delivered it from that state of tyrannic subjection.