pretence
英 [prɪ'tens]
美
- n. 假装；借口；虚伪
英英释意
- 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"