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Pretended :: Pretended (imp. & p. p.) of Preten.

Homely :: Homely (n.) Plain; unpretending; rude in appearance; unpolished; as, a homely garment; a homely house; homely fare; homely manners..

Pedant :: Pedant (n.) One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.

Witling :: Witling (n.) A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness.

Feigner :: Feigner (n.) One who feigns or pretends.

Malingerer :: Malingerer (n.) In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability..

Sciolist :: Sciolist (n.) One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer.

Diviner :: Diviner (n.) One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means..

Theologaster :: Theologaster (n.) A pretender or quack in theology.

Countenance :: Countenance (v. t.) To make a show of; to pretend.

Strokesman :: Stroker (n.) One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking..

Sanctimony :: Sanctimony (n.) Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity; especially, outward or artificial saintliness; assumed or pretended holiness; hypocritical devoutness..

Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.

Theurgist :: Theurgist (n.) One who pretends to, or is addicted to, theurgy..

Skepticize :: Skepticize (v. i.) To doubt; to pretend to doubt of everything.

Pretended :: Pretended (a.) Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend..

Pretend :: Pretend (v. i.) To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or performing; to profess; to make believe; to feign; to sham; as, to pretend to be asleep..

Un- :: Un- (adv.) Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; o

Pseudo- :: Pseudo- () A combining form or prefix signifying false, counterfeit, pretended, spurious; as, pseudo-apostle, a false apostle; pseudo-clergy, false or spurious clergy; pseudo-episcopacy, pseudo-form, pseudo-martyr, pseudo-philosopher. Also used adjectively..

Empiric :: Empiric (n.) One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan..

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