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pretendedadjective lacking in natural or spontaneous qualityhe shows a pretended affection for his girlfriend's cat affected, artificial, assumed, bogus, contrived, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forced, mechanical, mock, phony(also phoney), plastic, pseudo, put-on, sham, simulated, spurious, strained, unnatural automatic, canned, concocted, fabricated, hokey, labored, manufactured, pat, unauthentic, unreal, unrealisticdouble-dealing, empty, facile, hollow, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, two-faced, unctuousexaggerated, histrionic, melodramatic, overacted, overdone, theatrical(also theatric)cute, cutesy, genteel, goody-goody, mincing, overrefined, simperingconventional, formal, impersonal, inflexible, rigid, stiff, stylized, woodenartful, calculated, conscious, cultivated, deliberate, premeditated, studied artless, genuine, natural, spontaneous, unaffected, uncontrived, unfeigned, unforced authentic, bona fide, real, realistic, right, truehonest, ingenuous, sincere, unpretendingeasy, effortless, smoothextemporaneous, impromptu, impulsive, instinctive, unconscious, unprompted, unrehearsed, unstudied not being or expressing what one appears to be or expresshoped that his pretended interest in classical music would impress the boss artificial, backhanded, counterfeit, double, double-dealing, double-faced, fake, feigned, hypocritical, insincere, Janus-faced, jive(slang), left-handed, lip, mealy, mealymouthed, Pecksniffian, phony(also phoney), phony-baloney(or phoney-baloney), two-faced, unctuous affected, assumed, claptrap, contrived, forced, mechanical, put-on, simulated, strained, unnaturalempty, hollow, meaninglessdeceitful, devious, dishonest, false, untruthfulfacile, glib, superficialbogus, shamcampy, facetious, jocular, tongue-in-cheekcanting, pharisaical, pious, sanctimonious, self-righteous, simon-pure artless, candid, genuine, heartfelt, honest, sincere, undesigning, unfeigned direct, forthright, frank, heart-to-heart, open, plain, straightforward to take on a false or deceptive appearanceI pretended that I didn't care that my ex had a new man in her life dissembled, dissimulated, let on, made out acted, impersonated, masqueraded, playacted, played, posedaffected, assumed, counterfeited, faked, feigned, professed, put on, shammed, simulatedcamouflaged, concealed, disguised, maskedbluffed, feinted made a pretense, made a show, made believe, put on an act, put up a front to present a false appearance ofas if I would ever pretend illness just to take off a day from work acted, affected, assumed, bluffed, counterfeited, dissembled, faked, feigned, passed (for), professed, put on, shammed, simulated dissimulated, impersonated, let on, masqueraded, playacted, played, posedforged, imitatedcamouflaged, concealed, disguised, maskedfeintedmalingered made believe in the 15th century |