pretenses

Meaning of pretenses

noun
  1. A false or hypocritical profession
    under pretense of friendliness
  2. Intention or purpose not real but professed.
    with only a pretense of accuracy
  3. An unsupported claim made or implied.
  4. An insincere attempt to reach a specific condition or quality.

Information about pretenses

Hyphenation of pretenses

pre-tenses

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
  • pretenses is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

pretenses synonyms

Meaning :

affectation, deception, escape, fiction, imitation, pretext, sham, subterfuge

Anagrams of pretenses

Serpentes, serpentes

Words that rhyme with pretenses

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