Crossword clues for pretended
pretended
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pretended \Pre*tend"ed\, a. Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend. -- Pre*tend"ed*ly, adv.
Pretend \Pre*tend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pretended; p. pr. & vb. n. Pretending.] [OE. pretenden to lay claim to, F. pr['e]tendre, L. praetendere, praetentum, to stretch forward, pretend, simulate, assert; prae before + tendere to stretch. See Tend, v. t. ]
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To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.
Chiefs shall be grudged the part which they pretend.
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To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.
Lest that too heavenly form, pretended To hellish falsehood, snare them.
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To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to simulate; to feign; as, to pretend friendship.
This let him know, Lest, willfully transgressing, he pretend Surprisal.
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To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt. [Obs.]
Such as shall pretend Malicious practices against his state.
--Shak. To hold before one; to extend. [Obs.] ``His target always over her pretended.''
--Spenser.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "so-called," past participle adjective from pretend (v.).
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: pretend)
WordNet
Usage examples of "pretended".
I pretended to appraise both her face and her body, as if making judgement about her.
I hold an assignment of said judgment, dated the 20th of May, 1828, and signed by said Anderson, I have never pretended to deny or conceal, but stated that fact in one of my circulars previous to the election, and also in answer to a bill in chancery.
This assembly, in which are found pretended creditors introduced by the bankrupt,--the only electors who never fail to come to the meeting,--proposes the whole body of creditors as candidates from among whom the commissioner, a president without power, is supposed to select the assignees.
But even the stiletto of a Bravo is honorable, compared to that sword of pretended justice which St.
When the brigantine was ready to depart, the king pretended he was going on it, and he had the news spread that he was going to Rome to talk to the Pope.
Maybe it was good publicity, but when he pretended that he was a real hypnotist she wanted to laugh in his face.
Ethan lifted his head, uttering a curse worthy of the longshoreman he pretended to be.
Mavin took in her own, grasping it with as manish a pressure as she could, so that he winced and shook his own in pretended pain.
Rawney guffawed and pretended to swat Missus Shaughnessy on the bum as he went into the kitchen.
Then, telling us what to do, he dangled his foot overside and pretended to slip.
Even if she escaped Frank Parcher, and if she survived the trip to California, there was no chance of happiness if there was a doubt in her mind that Lucas was not everything he pretended to be: a man who wanted one woman, a home with her, children.
Ladies with the airs of queens descended from their carriages at the entrance to the notions shop, unencumbered by nursemaids or servants, and as they pretended to buy Holland laces and passementerie trimmings, they pawned, between sobs, the last glittering ornaments of their lost paradise.
He pretended that Cassius was an effeminate old pathic, and was always making dirty jokes about him to the other Guards officers, who were obliged to laugh heartily at them.
The transformative relationship between the old self and the new self is thus paralleled by, but different from, a performative relationship between the real self and the pretended self.
I pretended to be high, even bought a few cheap pillules to get them talking freely.