Significados de make pretenses em inglês

You seem to make pretenses of being cultivated, captain.

She had the inability to make pretenses, either to others or to herself, which characterizes stupid people and also the large, simple natures.

But nobody thinks less of a man for that in the world; the most one can ask is that he does not make pretenses.

These fellows have got so used to making pretenses that they actually deceive themselves.

Of course we-some of us-makepretenses-all sorts of silly pretenses.

"You think me a weak, clinging creature, not able to do anything but make pretenses."