Crossword-Solution: PRETENDS
We have 19 clues for the answer “PRETENDS”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Sails under false colors | 1 answer |
| Lays claim to a title. | 1 answer |
| Engages in role-playing | 1 answer |
| Engages in make-believe | 1 answer |
| Acts a part | 1 answer |
| Goes through the motions | 2 answers |
| Isn't sincere | 2 answers |
| Dissimulates. | 2 answers |
| Plays a part | 2 answers |
| Isn't for real? | 2 answers |
| Lays claim to | 3 answers |
| Fakes it | 3 answers |
| Puts on an act | 4 answers |
| Isn't serious | 5 answers |
| Makes believe | 6 answers |
| Simulates | 6 answers |
| Feigns | 6 answers |
| Acts | 17 answers |
| Puts on | 18 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRETENDS (5)
How can I get much satisfaction out of the enthusiasm of a house that likes her atrociously bad performance at the same time that it pretends to like mine? If they like her, then they ought to hiss me off the stage.
Before him a great Prophet, to proclaim 70 His coming, is sent harbinger, who all Invites, and in the consecrated stream Pretends to wash off sin, and fit them so Purified to receive him pure, or rather To do him honour as their King.
Every body pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was.
Would you like to know the opinion of a chronicler of the fourteenth century?” “Willingly.” “This fanciful writer pretends that its name was given to it after the passage of the Israelites, when Pharaoh perished in the waves which closed at the voice of Moses.” “A poet’s explanation, Captain Nemo,” I replied; “but I cannot content myself with that.
She pretends to be a great lady, but I consider that old Filomena, my washer-woman, is in essentials a greater one.
Quotes with PRETENDS (3)
A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.
How can I know for sure if it's my son speaking and not you?""You never can, my lord. Just as no man can ever be sure that he alone is a thinking and feeling creature and everyone else a machine that only pretends to feel and think.
Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 22 times in crossword archives (1951–2022).