Crossword-Solution: PRETENSES
We have 9 clues for the answer “PRETENSES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Deceptive outward appearances | 1 answer |
| False claims | 1 answer |
| Iago specialty | 1 answer |
| Pieces of make-believe | 1 answer |
| Works of fiction? | 1 answer |
| Shams | 3 answers |
| Semblances. | 3 answers |
| They may be false | 3 answers |
| MASKS | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PRETENSES (5)
When completed, the new Cotton Exchange will be a stately and beautiful building; massive, substantial, full of architectural graces; no shams or false pretenses or uglinesses about it anywhere.
Yet whenever Imogen strove to pay her tithes and plunged bravely into her plans for study next winter, Flavia grew absent-minded and interrupted her by amazing generalizations or by such embarrassing questions as, “And these grim studies really have charm for you; you are quite buried in them; they make other things seem light and ephemeral?” “I rather feel as though I had got in here under false pretenses,” Imogen confided to Miss Broadwood.
She had a suspicion that she did not deserve either; but she was full of good resolutions, and assured herself she soon would be what she had pretended--that her pretenses were not exactly false, only somewhat premature.
She had the inability to make pretenses, either to others or to herself, which characterizes stupid people and also the large, simple natures.
She was taking money--a disgracefully large amount of money--from Stanley Baird under false pretenses.
Quotes with PRETENSES (3)
But on a Sunday morning when I want to grab an omelet over girl talk, I’m at a loss. My Chicago friends are the let’s-get-dinner-on-the-books-a-month-in-advance type. We email, trading dates until we find an open calendar slot amidst our tight schedules of workout classes, volunteer obligations (no false pretenses here, the volunteers are my friends, not me, sadly), work events, concert tickets and other dinners scheduled with other girls. I’m looking for someone to invite to…
When people say the word "convention," they are usually referring to large gatherings of the employees of companies and corporations who attend a mass assembly, usually in a big hotel somewhere, for the purpose of pretending to learn stuff when they are in fact enjoying a free trip somewhere, time off work, and the opportunity to flirt with strangers, drink, and otherwise indulge themselves. The first major difference between a business convention and a fan-dom convention is …
They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NYT, WP.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1971–2018).