› a way of behaving that is intended to deceive people:
She made absolutely no pretence of being interested.
The army has given up any pretence of neutrality in the war.
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(Definition of “pretence” from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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