pretense
英 美['pritɛns]
- n. 借口；虚假；炫耀；自吹（等于pretence）
英英释意
- 1. the act of giving a false appearance;
- "his conformity was only pretending"
- 2. pretending with intention to deceive
- 3. imaginative intellectual play
- 4. a false or unsupportable quality
- 5. an artful or simulated semblance;
- "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"