Pretence

(a.) Alt. of Pretenceless

(n.) The act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption; pretension.

(n.) The act of holding out, or offering, to others something false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical; deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of patriotism; on pretense of revenging Caesar's death.

(n.) That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint.

(n.) Intention; design.

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• Is THAT the secret of your pretence of innocence, and your story about Rosanna Spearman? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Would you two gentlemen object to making a pretence of taking a glass of something in my company at the Fellowships? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I could not be expected to give her up, he said, after a moment's hesitation: it was not a case for any pretence of generosity. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Poor pretence as it is, these allusions to her being expected keep up hope within him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Twemlow; blessed release for the dear man if she really was his daughter, nervous even under the pretence that she is, well he may be. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I made a foolish pretence of not at first recognizing it, and then told her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• She showed it by brushing away viciously at Margaret's hair, under pretence of being in a great hurry to go to Mrs. Hale. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a headache, when your stepfather comes back. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I turned him hastily on some pretence, and held him in conversation until it was gone. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Sitting beside him, I made a pretence of working for my dear, as he had always been used to joke about my being busy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• In the university of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors have, for these many years, given up altogether even the pretence of teaching. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• How thoughtfully remind me, yet with no pretence of doing so, of the trust in which I held the orphan child! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Never, on any pretence, mind! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• He came on the pretence of playing golf. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Louisa understood the loving pretence, and her heart smote her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Fair words and fair pretences; but I penetrated below those assertions of themselves and depreciations of me, and they were no better. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Then you married me on false pretences. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Then you married me on false pretences? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Their usual pretences are, sometimes the high price of provisions, sometimes the great profit which their masters make by their work. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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