pretence

Although Vanessa comforted herself with the pretence that I had two fathers, in reality—emotional reality, that is—I had none.

Kelly, however, goes a step further and abandons any pretence of subtlety.

At his most devastating, Ellison abandons any pretence of literary realism.

The latest addition to the most-wanted list, Hafeez Saeed, the head of Lashkar-e-Taiba, does not even make any pretence of hiding.

We can't disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism.

As the weeks wore on, the pretence of practical teaching was quietly dropped, and we crammed our science out of the text-book.

By-and-by all pretence of formality and order is put aside and the battle really begins.

In 1845, this man, who had been a model husband and who made a great pretence of religion maintained Heloise Brisetout.

They made some pretence of eating and drinking till the two waiters had for the time being departed.

There are some people who, if they do not know the name or the face of a man, make this a pretence for laughing at him.