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