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pretension

a false or unsupportable quality

the advancing of a claim; "his pretension to the crown"; "the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort"

Synonyms:

• Barnumism,
• acting,
• affectation,
• affectedness,
• airs,
• airs and graces,
• alibi,
• ambitions,
• ambitiousness,
• apology,
• appearance,
• appurtenance,
• artificiality,
• aspiration,
• attitudinizing,
• authority,
• bedizenment,
• big talk,
• birthright,
• blind,
• bluff,
• bluffing,
• charade,
• cheating,
• claim,
• cloak,
• color,
• coloring,
• conjugal right,
• cover story,
• cover-up,
• deception,
• delusion,
• demand,
• device,
• disguise,
• dissemblance,
• dissembling,
• dissimulation,
• divine right,
• droit,
• due,
• excuse,
• facade,
• face,
• faculty,
• fakery,
• faking,
• false air,
• false front,
• false show,
• falsity,
• feigned belief,
• feigning,
• feint,
• flashiness,
• flatulence,
• flatulency,
• four-flushing,
• fraud,
• front,
• fulsomeness,
• garishness,
• gaudiness,
• gilt,
• gloss,
• grandiloquence,
• grandioseness,
• grandiosity,
• guise,
• handle,
• high-flown diction,
• humbug,
• humbuggery,
• hypocrisy,
• image,
• imposture,
• inalienable right,
• inflatedness,
• inflation,
• insincerity,
• interest,
• lame excuse,
• lexiphanicism,
• locus standi,
• loftiness,
• lofty affectations,
• luridness,
• magniloquence,
• make-believe,
• mannerism,
• mask,
• masquerade,
• mere rhetoric,
• mere show,
• meretriciousness,
• natural right,
• orotundity,
• ostensible motive,
• ostent,
• ostentation,
• ostentatious complexity,
• ostentatiousness,
• outward show,
• pageant,
• platitudinous ponderosity,
• playacting,
• polysyllabic profundity,
• pomposity,
• pompous prolixity,
• pompousness,
• pontification,
• poor excuse,
• pose,
• posing,
• posture,
• power,
• prerogative,
• prescription,
• presumptive right,
• pretending,
• pretense,
• pretensions,
• pretentiousness,
• pretext,
• proper claim,
• property right,
• prose run mad,
• protestation,
• prunes and prisms,
• public image,
• public motive,
• put-off,
• put-on,
• putting on airs,
• refuge,
• representation,
• rhetoric,
• rhetoricalness,
• right,
• screen,
• seeming,
• semblance,
• sensationalism,
• sententiousness,
• sham,
• show,
• showiness,
• simulacrum,
• simulation,
• smoke screen,
• speciousness,
• stalking-horse,
• stiltedness,
• stratagem,
• stylishness,
• subterfuge,
• swelling utterance,
• swollen phrase,
• swollenness,
• tall talk,
• title,
• tortuosity,
• tortuousness,
• trick,
• tumidity,
• tumidness,
• turgescence,
• turgidity,
• unnaturalness,
• varnish,
• veil,
• vested interest,
• vested right,
• window dressing