Crossword-Solution: PRETENSE 8 letters, 53 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Pretense n. Alt. of Pretence

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PRETENSE anagram PETERSEN, PRESENTE, PRETEENS, TERPENES

We have 53 clues for the answer “PRETENSE”

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Something done for show. 1 answer
Most middle-schoolers 1 answer
Mere display. 1 answer
False show of something. 1 answer
False purpose 1 answer
Bogus act 1 answer
False display 1 answer
False profession 1 answer
false act 2 answers
It's only make-believe 2 answers
Unwarranted assumption. 2 answers
Smoke and mirrors 3 answers
False claim 3 answers
Fakery 4 answers
FALSE show 8 answers
false appearance 10 answers
AN APPEARANCE OF TRUTH THAT IS FALSE OR DECEPTIVE 11 answers
AN ACT THAT INCRIMINATES SOMEONE ON A FALSE CHARGE 11 answers
Masquerade 12 answers
Charade 15 answers
ALLEGED REASON 15 answers
False front 17 answers
Make-believe 21 answers
Make Believe 22 answers
Subterfuge. 25 answers
shaggy dog story 29 answers
illustrative story 29 answers
misrepresentation 29 answers
amusing story 30 answers
OUTWARD appearance 31 answers
Facade 36 answers
lip service 37 answers
ADVENTURE story 39 answers
Short story? 41 answers
mask 43 answers
Travesty 44 answers
ACQUIRING dishonestly 47 answers
Shell game? 53 answers
CONFIDENCE game 54 answers
simulation 59 answers
quackery 64 answers
dissimulation 65 answers
Excuse 66 answers
Narrative 69 answers
Affectation 72 answers
airs 74 answers
Artifice 75 answers
guise 77 answers
Front 78 answers
COVER ___ 81 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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Sentences with PRETENSE (5)

Then shall they seek to avail themselves of names, Places and titles, and with these to joine Secular power, though feigning still to act By spiritual, to themselves appropriating The Spirit of God, promisd alike and giv’n To all Beleevers; and from that pretense, Spiritual Lawes by carnal power shall force On every conscience; Laws which none shall finde Left them inrould, or what the Spirit within Shall on the heart engrave.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
The Lion and the Fox A FOX entered into partnership with a Lion on the pretense of becoming his servant.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
She made a sloppy pretense of putting the room in order, but she was such a dirty creature that Thea would not let her touch her cot; she got up every morning and turned the mattress and made the bed herself.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
Finally, upon a pretense that he could do nothing with her (I use his own words) he “set her adrift, to take care of herself.” Here was a recently converted man, holding, with tight grasp, the well-framed, and able bodied slaves left him by old master—the persons, who, in freedom, could have taken care of themselves; yet, turning loose the only cripple among them, virtually to starve and die.
My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 1995
McGurk ushered us into the library; and then, not to leave us alone, came in herself on a pretense of polishing the brass.
Dear Enemy Jean Webster 1995

Quotes with PRETENSE (3)

To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
Timothy J. Keller The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
Through an arrow loop in the wall she saw a familiar horse and rider tearing across the camp toward the healing rooms. Brigan pulled up at Nash's feet and dropped from the saddle. The two brothers threw their arms around each other and embraced hard. Shortly thereafter he stepped into the healing rooms and leaned in the doorway, looking across at her quietly. Brocker's son with the gentle gray eyes. She abandoned all pretense of decorum and ran at him.
Kristin Cashore Fire
A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself
Maya Angelou
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 46 times in crossword archives (1948–2022).