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Meanings of pretender in anglès
A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives.
Usage of pretender in anglès
1
Prussia demanded the expulsion of the pretender; to which Austria said no.
2
About the time of the Paris pretender in the kingdom of Naples.
3
The ideal of China is sincerity but an actor is a pretender.
4
The pretender braced himself for the scrutiny the eyes made of him.
5
You show more determination than I had thought possible for a pretender.
6
Fortune at first seemed to have declared in favour of the pretender.
7
The pretender advanced from Devonshire to seize Taunton; but when Henry VII.
8
They engaged in an association against the pretender, and all his abettors.
9
He entered the city, seized the pretender and many of his followers.
10
His favor was sufficient to discredit any pretender to office or advancement.
11
As usual, the revolt was headed by a pretender to the sultanate.
12
The moment might be propitious to the pretender, however false his claim.
13
The pretender will be taken at the source of his misplaced pride.
14
Among the sciences which this pretender hath professed is that of alchemy.
15
Perhaps I felt that I was a pretender or an outlaw successor.
16
I was a pretender who made pretty sounds with a half-foreign language.
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common