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Pretend not to have seen
Answer for the clue "Pretend not to have seen ", 16 letters:
turn a blind eye
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Word definitions for turn a blind eye in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. refuse to acknowledge; "He turns a blind eye to the injustices in his office"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context idiomatic English) To ignore or deliberately overlook, especially with respect to something unpleasant or improper, to look the other way. To knowingly refuse to acknowledge something which you know to be real.
Usage examples of turn a blind eye.
He had gathered to himself a high proportion of women in Utah, along with a number of men with low sex drives who seemed happy to turn a blind eye on Cranmer's adoption of their wives.
The army, at least officially, seemed to turn a blind eye and not look too closely at what had happened.
How can you accept from them the Black of Mastery while you turn a blind eye at truth?
For as little as a meat pie or a wedge of good cheese, Master Haysticks would turn a blind eye to what went on in any number of his vacant stalls.
And it would be hypocritical of me to be writing with such enthusiasm about the grand-if stymied-passion between Rachel and Galilee and at the same time turn a blind eye to something that's happening right in front of me.
It was illegal for Egyptians to own them, but the authorities tended to turn a blind eye when the owner was a responsible individual.
Later the factory manager would turn a blind eye to the disappearance of a consignment of his steel plate, which would find its way to another factory whose steel plate had not arrived.
Some said it was because Scrainwood used magick to watch them through the coins, but Will had the feeling that most folks just wanted the king to turn a blind eye on them and their dealings.