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Noun Concept
Categories: Lying, Barriers to critical thinking, Articles with short description, All articles lacking reliable references, Psychology experiments
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pretense  pretence  feigning  dissembling
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Pretending with intention to deceive WordNet 3.0
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Pretending with intention to deceive WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Act of one who feigns; fakery; deceit. Wiktionary
IS A
misrepresentation
HAS KIND
bluff
hypocrisy
pretext
hypocrisy
DERIVATION
feign
pretentious
USAGE DOMAIN
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American English orthography
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling
Wiktionary
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feigning
Wikipedia Redirections
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dissembling, feigning

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