Pretended

Examples

• At length, I got up whenever I saw him coming, and standing on the foot-board, pretended to look at the prospect; after which I did very well. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Volta of Pavia, took decided issue with Galvani and maintained that the pretended animal electricity was nothing but electricity developed by the contact of two different metals. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The way he'd say “I've been a regular brown bear to-day,” and take himself in his arms and hug himself at the thoughts of the brute he had pretended. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He pretended to no gradual change of views; he wheeled about at once. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Quite true,' added Mr Boffin; 'and I tested Venus by making him a pretended proposal or two; and I found him on the whole a very honest man, Wegg. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• When we pretended to be so fond of one another, we exulted over her; that was what we did; we exulted over her and shamed her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I was able to invent names for my parents, whom I pretended to be obscure people in the province of Gelderland. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Yes; he has pretended to make my opinions and tastes his own. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• This out of to-day, quite an unnecessary out so far as the attendance, which was its pretended object, went, was planned by me alone for thee alone. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It has been pretended [L'Art de penser. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The least they pretended was that they were going to cut Lowick Parish into sixes and sevens. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I could never have been of any use, if I had not pretended a little. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He pretended that the greatest poets must, when they first began to write, have committed as many faults as he did. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• We have actually pretended that the work of extracting a living from nature could be done most successfully by short-sighted money-makers encouraged by their money-spending wives. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Madame saw all this, but she still pretended not to see: she had not rectitude of soul to confront the child with her vices. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• This pretended African speech was an excellent parody of one delivered by Mr. Jackson, of Georgia. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Government, it is pretended, could borrow this capital at three per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Or he may have been taken in, in some pretended bargain. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And I seem to remember a story of a man they pretended to chair and let him fall into a dust-heap on purpose! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He pretended to be writing at a paper, when the Captain entered. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It has either presented the business man with money or harassed him with bungling enthusiasm in the pretended interests of the consumer. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• How could she have pretended love, and raised him to such a pinnacle of hope only to cast him down to such utter depths of despair! Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• In cheap years it is pretended, workmen are generally more idle, and in dear times more industrious than ordinary. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Red Whisker pretended he could make a salad (which I don't believe), and obtruded himself on public notice. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She was frightened, and when she was frightened she always laughed and pretended to be jaunty. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I had to put my hand behind his legs for the poker when I went up to the fireplace to stir the fire, but still pretended not to know him. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• To whom my sister, more for the relief of her own mind than for the gratification of his, related my pretended experiences. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• To form a clear idea of any thing, is an undeniable argument for its possibility, and is alone a refutation of any pretended demonstration against it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Cyrus pretended a right to the throne above his elder brother, because he was born after his father's accession. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Of all the train none escaped except Wamba, who showed upon the occasion much more courage than those who pretended to greater sense. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

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