Crossword-Solution: PRETENDS 8 letters, 19 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
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.
Paradise Regained John Milton 1993
Every body pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was.
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 1994
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.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne 1994
She pretends to be a great lady, but I consider that old Filomena, my washer-woman, is in essentials a greater one.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006

Quotes with PRETENDS (3)

A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.
Erma Bombeck
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.
Paul Hoffman The Left Hand of God
Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age.
Harley King
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, WSJ.

Used 22 times in crossword archives (1951–2022).