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Перевод: pretence

[существительное]
притворство; обман ; отговорка ; претензия ; требование; претенциозность

Тезаурус:

1. The first record of the term "long-firm fraud" which Levi uncovers was in a journal of 1869, while the obtaining of goods under the false pretence that one had an honest and solvent business is an activity with a much longer history.
2. But now all those Arab and Western powers that had invested such hopes in the plan will find it hard to sustain even a pretence that it remains a realistic proposal.
3. Eliot made clear that his Pageant Play made no pretence of being a contribution to the dramatic literature of England.
4. So I pulled out my SG, and not plugged into anything or making any pretence towards collecting money, started to exercise my fingers scale-wise.
5. To confront the anger of God in the way the ancient Israelites dared to do, to face it as directed against ourselves and the society of which we are so much a part, is to escape the romantic pretence, the unrelieved jollity, or the easy, unthinking speech of so much that passes for Christian belief and worship.
6. No amount of talk and pretence will make it reality.
7. Each week he would sit me on his knee and, under the pretence of asking me about the things I'd been doing at school, he would squeeze my thighs and waist.
8. Where the edges between reality and fiction become blurred, there is a danger that the emotion felt is first order, that is, unmediated by abstraction or knowledge of pretence.
9. A man who is made redundant may feel unable to tell his wife what has happened and keep up the pretence of leaving for work every day.
10. For all her pretence, she loved books.
11. The official story had always been that Greg was simply a close family friend, but a child could have seen through the pretence and she had not been a child for a very long time, perhaps not since that long-ago night when she was four years old and had stood, unseen, outside a bedroom door
12. The commonest evasions, certainly well known in the twelfth century, were the pretence that the original loan was greater than in fact it was, or the securing of a loan by a temporary grant of land; in the former case the difference between the actual loan and the repayment in fact constituted interest; and in the latter the rent on the land might do the same.
13. Perhaps, suddenly, I was tired of it all - the painstaking care in fashioning this huge pretence about something that probably was not particularly important to anyone but myself.