Crossword clues for pretending
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. The act of imagining; make-believe vb. (present participle of pretend English)
WordNet
n. the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending" [syn: pretense, pretence, simulation, feigning]
Wikipedia
"Pretending" is a song with music and lyrics by Al Sherman and Marty Symes. It was recorded by Andy Russell with the Paul Weston Orchestra ( Capitol), Bing Crosby (singing) and Les Paul playing lead guitar ( Decca) and Kate Smith ( Columbia) among others. The song was published in New York City by Criterion Music Corporation.
The recording by Andy Russell was released by Capitol Records as catalog number 271. It reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on October 4, 1946 at #10, its only week on the chart.
Pretending or Pretend may refer to:
- Role-playing, refers to the changing of one's behaviour to assume a role, either unconsciously to fill a social role, or consciously to act out an adopted role
- "Pretending" (Al Sherman song), a 1946 song with music and lyrics by Al Sherman and Marty Symes
- "Pretending" (Eric Clapton song), a 1989 rock song written and composed by Jerry Lynn Williams
- "Pretending" (HIM song), a song by the Finnish band HIM released in 2001
- "Pretending" (Glee song), a song from US TV series Glee
- "Pretend" (song), a 1952 popular song, written by Lew Douglas, Cliff Parman, and Frank Levere
- "Pretend" (Tinashe song), a 2014 song by Tinashe featuring ASAP Rocky
- "Pretend", a song by Cheri Dennis from In and Out of Love
- "Pretend", a song by Lights from The Listening
- Pretending (film), known as Ugly Me in the U.S., 2006 Chilean romantic comedy film
"Pretending" is a rock song written and composed by Jerry Lynn Williams. It was released in 1989 on Eric Clapton's Journeyman as the first track of the album. The song was released as the lead single from the album, backed with "Hard Times," and reached #55 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it the album's highest-charting single on that chart. It was also #1 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. In the Netherlands, it reached #3 on the Dutch Tip 40 and #24 on the Dutch Top 40. It became a live favorite.
The song begins with a piano introduction. Clapton uses a wah wah pedal on the song. Author Marc Roberty describes the wah-wah solos as being "superlative." Roberty criticizes Steve Ferrone's drumming on the song for being too heavy handed. Allmusic critic Matthew Greenwald praises the song's "great guitar hook" and Clapton's "great vocal and guitar performances" on the song. However, Greenwald believes that the song's arrangement is overdone, particularly the "brassy synthesizers," and feels that the song dated quickly due to its pop music elements.
From the CD liner notes on Pretending: "Jimmy Bralower - Drum Programming" Steve Ferrone is not listed as drummer on the song.
'Pretending ' is an original song from the second season of the American musical comedy-drama Glee, entitled New York. The episode included two other original songs: " As Long as You’re There" and " Light Up the World. the song was featured on the show’s Volume 6 soundtrack.
The song was written by Adam Anders, Peer Astrom and Shelly Peiken.
Usage examples of "pretending".
Still an actress, she pressed her handkerchief to her eyes, pretending to weep, and assuring me that I was not to doubt the truth of what she said.
Out of breath, I threw myself on a sofa, pretending to go to sleep, and the moment I began to snore everybody respected the slumbers of Pierrot.
They proceeded to sit down and I began to take off their shoes, praising the beauty of their legs, and pretending for the present not to want to go farther than the knee.
I remain silent, pretending to gaze at the scenery, but in reality thinking of her, for she began to inspire me with a lively interest.
I was greatly surprised to see the impostor Ivanoff, who instead of pretending not to know me, as he ought to have done, came forward to embrace me.
A certain painter met with great success for some time by announcing a thing which was an impossibility--namely, by pretending that he could take a portrait of a person without seeing the individual, and only from the description given.
Of course they could not help believing me, or at least pretending to do so.
Zanovitch did not wait to be spoken to, but made himself agreeable to everyone, and congratulated himself on mixing in such distinguished company, talked about Naples which he had just left, brought in his own name with great adroitness, played high, lost merrily, paid after pretending to forget all about his debts, and in short pleased everyone.
I followed exactly the instructions she had given me, and for six mortal hours I remained alone, pretending to write.
Therefore, pretending to be very hungry, I gave her the opportunity of speaking and of informing me by hints of what I had to know, in order not to make blunders.
I made haste to meet them on the stair, and welcomed them, saying I was glad they had done me the honour to come and take breakfast with me, pretending not to know of any other reason.
To give my prophecy authority, I told her some curious circumstances which had hitherto happened to her, and which I had learnt now and again from herself or Madame Morin without pretending to heed what they said.
At last, tired out with the struggle, she left me pretending to be perfectly satisfied with what she had done.
She remained at Bologna six weeks longer, pretending to be still suffering from the effects of her confinement.
Soradaci observed his oath, pretending to sleep, and Lawrence said nothing to him.