pretender 的定义
- a person who pretends, especially for a dishonest purpose.
- an aspirant or claimant: a pretender to the throne.
- a person who makes unjustified or false claims, statements, etc., as about personal status, abilities, intentions, or the like: a pretender to literary genius.
pretender 近义词
phony
更多pretender例句
- First-round matchups and predictionsMetrics — both conventional and less traditional — can provide clues about which teams deserve to be considered contenders, and which are mere pretenders.
- So, as you fill out your brackets this week, here’s a quick way to separate the contenders from the pretenders.
- And cancer, deceiver, pretender, coward; it cannot even subsist without the vibrant people it depends on.
- All was jolly and genial between the king of late night and the pretender to the throne.
- Instead, the pairing served as a weekly reminder that the generic Low was a mere pretender to the throne.
- The Daily Pic: A stunning MoMA retrospective sheds new light on our greatest pretender.
- Rush Limbaugh has called Dede Scozzafava a “pretender” and an “extreme liberal Republican” who “might as well be a Democrat.”
- Consummate liar and comedian, or true man and no pretender, his eyes did not falter.
- Is it to the emblem of the House of York, or the badge of the Pretender?
- A captivating romance of love and chivalry—the adventures of a charming highwayman of the days of the English Pretender.
- This shall be left in my hands by him for thirty days, during which the pretender shall leave France.
- The young Pretender, followed by about fifty Scotch and Irish adventurers, meanwhile, came incog.