pretense

In Iraq and Syria, unlike in Libya, there is no pretense that this is anything less than war in the constitutional sense.

We would perhaps be tossing out any pretense of traditional baseball in exchange for popular thrill-a-minute spectacle.

They are winning incremental battles under the pretense of health regulations and parental consent.

There is not even the pretense of actual interaction with voters.

All along, Orman never made any pretense about her sexuality.

After long delays Crane and Keith made pretense of building camps and starting to log.

No one who makes any pretense of seeing England will miss either of these places.

Come, Peter Snooks, to the dog that was never far out of sight, well at least make a pretense of being useful.

What oceans of futility one discovered, what mountains of pretense—and with what forests of scholarship grown over them!

Ruth always suspected that Uncle Jabez Potter made a pretense of being really worse than he was.