Crossword-Solution: PRETENDED 9 letters, 28 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Dictionary

Word Word Type Definition
Pretended imp. & p. p. of Pretend
Pretended a. Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended
friend.

We have 28 clues for the answer “PRETENDED”

Clue Answers
Not sincere 1 answer
Made believe 5 answers
factitious 14 answers
Let on 17 answers
Faked 23 answers
staged 24 answers
acted 31 answers
euphemistic 35 answers
imitated 39 answers
Simulated 40 answers
Plastic. 43 answers
histrionic 46 answers
Put-on 46 answers
Theatrical 47 answers
falsified 47 answers
Melodramatic 48 answers
Alleged. 49 answers
Bogus 50 answers
disingenuous 50 answers
Feigned 52 answers
hypocritical 53 answers
Tense 55 answers
Thespian 57 answers
Eloquent 58 answers
Dramatic. 59 answers
Insincere 61 answers
Put on 63 answers
unreal 75 answers
✏️ Suggest another clue Know another question for crossword solution "PRETENDED"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
16 +2

New Suggestion for "PRETENDED"

Answer (solution)
Clue

Related word tools

Sentences with PRETENDED (5)

Babies? To prevent Peter ordering babies they hurried into song again: “We’ve made the roses peeping out, The babes are at the door, We cannot make ourselves, you know, ’Cos we’ve been made before.” Peter, seeing this to be a good idea, at once pretended that it was his own.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
Out of my sight, thou Serpent, that name best Befits thee with him leagu’d, thy self as false And hateful; nothing wants, but that thy shape, Like his, and colour Serpentine may shew Thy inward fraud, to warn all Creatures from thee Henceforth; least that too heav’nly form, pretended To hellish falshood, snare them.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
The Wild Sow, whom you see daily digging up the earth, wishes to uproot the oak, so she may on its fall seize our families as food for her young.” Having thus frightened the Eagle out of her senses, she crept down to the cave of the Sow, and said, “Your children are in great danger; for as soon as you go out with your litter to find food, the Eagle is prepared to pounce upon one of your little pigs.” Having instilled these fears into the Sow, she went and pretended to hide herself in the hollow of the tree.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
One of the systems hackers solved the problem by replacing JEDGAR with another program that only pretended to do its job.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
She not only felt a grave social discrimination against the Mexicans; she could not forget that Spanish Johnny was a drunkard and that “nobody knew what he did when he ran away from home.” Thea pretended, of course, that she liked the Mexicans because they were fond of music; but every one knew that music was nothing very real, and that it did not matter in a girl’s relations with people.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

Quotes with PRETENDED (3)

She’s kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, she’s turned life away. Sometimes she subsists for days on water and air. Being the only known complex life-form to do this, she should have a species named after her. Once Uncle Julian told me how the sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti said that sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might se…
Nicole Krauss The History of Love
When I was little and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the other kids so we could run together even though I knew (and everybody else knew) that I could run much faster than all of them! I pretended to read slowly so I could "wait" for everyone else who couldn't read as fast as I could! When my friends were short I pretended that I was short too and if my friend was sad I pretended to be unhappy. I could go on and on about all the ways …
C. JoyBell C.
Rousseau identified reason as the disease for which it pretended to be the cure.
Robert Zaretsky
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, NYT, WSJ.

Used 12 times in crossword archives (1959–2016).