单词	pretense
释义	pretensepre‧tense /prɪˈtens $ ˈpriːtens/ noun [singular, uncountable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINpretense Origin: 1300-1400 Old French pretensse, from Latin praetendere; ➔ PRETEND1 Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS But it will strip away a little pretense and artifice, and maybe even put back a little passion. Eventually he would turn away, either because he accepted my pretense or because he was not sure it was one. John then-and this is the important point-was able to deliver on his early pretense and Big Promise potential. Now and then, the real priorities and the concealed agenda do break through the pretense of compassion. She knew a couple of friends elsewhere who lived together under the pretense of sharing an apartment or duplex. She was an adventuress, unabashedly ambitious, totally without pretense, searching for fame. The hypocrisy is the pretense that the players are scholars whose colleges are competing for the glory of it all. The whistle cuts through all fantasy and pretense. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► make · The result is a passionate, deeply informed account that makes no pretense of being a balanced work of history. the American spelling of pretence
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