pretense
How many syllables in pretense?
There are 2 syllables in the word pretense.How to pronounce pretense:
Synonyms for pretense:
acting
affectation
affectedness
appearance
arrogance
charade
confidence
deceit
deception
disdain
dissembling
dissimulation
falsehood
feigning
grandiosity
guise
inflation
make-believe
mannerism
masquerade
pose
pretence
pretend
pretending
pretension
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Antonyms for pretense:
artlessness
back
bluntness
candidness
candor
candour
character
complete honesty
concrete
difference
directness
disclosure
discouragement
dissimilarity
existence
facing
fairness
faithfulness
fidelity
forthrightness
frankness
genuineness
good faith
guilelessness
honesty
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- gulping
- anguished
- widened
- therein
- swampy
- strangling
- merged
- entwine
- enjoin
- delude
- complied
- chauffeured
- sandal
- mega
- finesse
- Dearbourne
- tinklers
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- ghostwrite
- deranged
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- smolder
- natives
- clattered
- thinly
- reused
- lengthened
- contort
- knapsack
- misplay
- gumption
- feater
- elates
- chalked
- appraise
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