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Significats de pretender en 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.
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Examples for "hypocrite"
Examples for "hypocrite"
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And for those that attend the hypocrite, in general they are these.
2
But he made himself a hypocrite; and that he found much easier.
3
What a shameless hypocrite! I had to admit, they made a point.
4
I also played the hypocrite, and frequented the conferences of Saint Lazarus.
5
The lady on this occasion acted finely the part of a hypocrite.
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You know what we do to people give us a phony lead?
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That's a pretty sweeping statement, and I know how phony it sounds.
3
Then they discovered something really big: phony anti-virus programs known as scareware.
4
However, like a lot of this six-episode series, the prizes are phony.
5
I keep thinking I've got some kind of phony vibration period here.
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He thought there was something phoney in the feel of the notes.
2
The phoney war is over; now the battle for Eircom truly begins.
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The annual phoney war that kicks off awards season has properly begun.
4
Websites are now used and operated anonymously or under a phoney alias.
5
But the enthusiasm was short-lived and perceived as phoney at the time.
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I was a close and resolute dissembler-inthis one case at least.
2
Clever dissembler that he was, he could not prevent an involuntary start.
3
He was then in Clarendon's eyes preeminently a dissembler-'thegreatest dissembler living'.
4
Perhaps Stoppard's comparisons with that great dissembler Wilde are more apt than ever.
5
You have not been weak; you have been abused by a devilish dissembler.
1
Bajee Rao, practised dissimulator as he was, flushed at this unexpected accusation.
2
He is a great dissimulator, a spreader abroad of clever fantasies and lies.
3
This is, perhaps unconsciously, partly Ned's doing; at fifteen he wasalready a master dissimulator.
4
Angelica: (sighing) What violence is necessary to turn me into a dissimulator with all the world.
5
Tostig, with all his vices, was a poor dissimulator, and his sullen spirit betrayed itself when he took leave of his host.
Ús de pretender en anglès
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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