Significados de little pretense em inglês

And it called for little pretense, so desperate and forlorn was he feeling.

Thereafter she yawned and made her little pretense of increased drowsiness.

There was little pretense of reading the measures as required by the State Constitution.

The table was set for the regular meals, but there was little pretense of eating.

The Inspector was a man of little pretense.

He was always too choleric to hide his mind, and he answered with little pretense at civility.

Our ladies found it hard enough to find such even when there was little pretense of social equality.

Now, when was it exactly he went away...? I frowned and made a little pretense of counting back the days.

In the middle, between the two villages lay a hamlet consisting of a few farms and some small houses of little pretense.

The Marine Corps lagged far behind the rest of the naval establishment, and there was little pretense of conforming with the Navy's racial policy.

"Set down right thar, suh," she stammered, her poor little pretense of ease gone from her, "right thar between Brother Bill and me."