let on
verb
let on; letting on; lets on
intransitive verb
1
: to make acknowledgment : admit
knows more than he lets on
2
: to reveal a secret
nobody let on about the surprise party
3
: pretend
let on to being a stranger
Synonyms
- dissemble
- dissimulate
- make out
- pretend
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Example Sentences
she's not half as innocent as she likes to let on
Word History
First Known Use
1725, in the meaning defined at sense 1
let on
verb
as in to pretend
to take on a false or deceptive appearance she's not half as innocent as she likes to let on Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- pretend
- make believe
- put on an act
- make a pretense
- make a show
- put up a front
- make out
- dissimulate
- pose
- put on
- dissemble
- act
- play
- simulate
- masquerade
- affect
- feign
- assume
- sham
- conceal
- camouflage
- disguise
- impersonate
- fake
- playact
- mask
- counterfeit
- profess
- feint
- bluff