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pretense

英美['pritɛns]
  • n. 借口;虚假;炫耀;自吹(等于pretence)

英英释意


1. the act of giving a false appearance;
"his conformity was only pretending"
2. pretending with intention to deceive
3. imaginative intellectual play
4. a false or unsupportable quality
5. an artful or simulated semblance;
"under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"