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Перевод: pretense

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

Тезаурус:

1. He delayed going upstairs for as long as possible, partly in a hopeless pretense of getting the papers finished with, and partly to avoid Sara.
2. A pot of coffee was spilled, and Sara had to get a damp cloth for the trousers of one of the visitors, who was involved in an unwise pretense that he hadn't actually been asleep.
3. As a result, he gave up any further pretense of restoring constitutional democracy and relied instead upon the enactment of a "direct democracy" between himself and" the people".
4. As to genius, "Reynolds" opinion was that Genius may be taught that all Pretense to Inspiration is a Lie a Deceit, to say the least of it.
5. Top Democratic Party officials rid themselves of every pretense at neutrality, at letting "the people" choose their candidate.
6. For macroscopic systems consisting of 10 2 particles or so, we have to use statistical methods and abandon any pretense of solving the equations exactly.
7. Only the Lollards, however, seem to have elaborated a pacifist doctrine founded upon the Biblical injunction against killing: the tenth of the twelve Lollard conclusions published in 1395 declared that "manslaute be batayle or pretense lawe of rythwysnesse for temperal cause or spirituel withouten special revelaciun is expres contrarious to the newe testament, the qwiche is a lawe of grace and ful of mercy".
8. "The pretense that the constant repetition of a few words constitutes a story becomes an insult to the child's intelligence" ( ibid , p.221).