Definition of Pretended

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Definition of Pretended
	Pretended of Pretend Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend. Related Definitions: Appearance, As, False, Friend, Making, Of, Pretend, Pretended, Unreal

Pretended Quotations

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
George Washington

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison

Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
Adam Smith

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.
Jane Jacobs

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
Jacques Derrida

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.
Cary Grant

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.
Patti LaBelle

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.
Maria Mitchell

Pretended Translations

pretended in German is gab vor, angeblich, vermeintlich
pretended in Italian is presunto
pretended in Spanish is presunto

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