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Significats de pretence en anglès

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The act of giving a false appearance.

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      An artful or simulated semblance.

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            Ús de pretence en anglès
            1
            The flat means society life; that is, the pretence of social life.
            A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 1
            2
            Last year, Dr Schram was charged with obtaining employment through false pretence.
            Radio NZ
            3
            The same defiant note; but there was anxiety behind the cold pretence.
            The Hunt Ball Mystery
            4
            And now the Seneschal took refuge in a fine pretence of indignation.
            St. Martin's Summer
            5
            There was a pretence of ordinary breakfast; the little servant necessitated that.
            New Grub Street
            6
            There was no longer even the pretence of knightly virtues in France.
            A Short History of France
            7
            Frowning: she had, it seemed, given up on all pretence of stillness.
            The pretender's crown
            8
            It is the pretence of it, for base purposes, which is disgraceful.
            The True Woman / A Series of Discourses, to Which Is Added Woman...
            9
            Class elevation is pretence, not superiority; complacence, not wisdom; impudence, not power.
            The Moral Economy
            10
            He had made a pretence to murder me with the same idea.
            Romance
            11
            They're just having a nice time, dropping the pretence and having fun.
            The Guardian
            12
            Their turgid rhetoric and exaggerated pretence did not seem natural to him.
            Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1: April 1861-No...
            13
            But he pleases me most by his sincerity; he makes no pretence.
            The Argonauts
            14
            We cannot disguise hostility toward any religion behind the pretence of liberalism.
            Reuters
            15
            Altringer, on pretence of sickness, remained in the strong fortress of Frauenberg.
            The History of the Thirty Years' War
            16
            The pretence of their neutrality is not asset to the Soviet Union.
            Agent 6
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            Pretence a través del temps
            Pretence per variant geogràfica
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