pretence
英 [pr?'tens]
美
- n. 假裝；借口；虛偽
英英釋意
- 1. a false or unsupportable quality
- 2. an artful or simulated semblance;
- "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"
- 3. pretending with intention to deceive
- 4. imaginative intellectual play
- 5. the act of giving a false appearance;
- "his conformity was only pretending"