pretense
I
(ostentation) noun
affectation, affectedness, airs, artificiality, blatancy, bravado, demonstration, display, empty show, false appearance, false show, fanfaronade, flagrancy, flashiness, flourish, fuss, garishness, gaudiness, glare, glitter, grandiosity, histrionics, impressive effect, inflation, insincerity, loftiness, mockery, obtrusiveness, ostentatio, ostentatiousness, outward show, panache, parade, pomp, pomposity, pompousness, pose, pretension, pretentiousness, sham, show, showiness, splash, splurge, theatricality, unnaturalness, window-dressing
II
(pretext) noun
appearance, beguilement, bluff, camouflage, cheat, claim, cloak, color, cover, deceit, deception, disguise, duplicity, empty words, excuse, fabrication, false appearance, false plea, false show, falsehood, falseness, falsification, feint, forgery, fraud, fraudulence, guise, hoax, hypocrisy, imitation, invention, lie, mask, mendacity, misrepresentation, ostensible purpose, ostensible reason, plea, postulatio, professed purpose, ruse, semblance, sham, show, simulation, simulatione, subterfuge, trick, trickery, untruth
associated concepts: false pretnese, fraudulent pretense, larceny by false pretense
III
index
appearance (look), artifice, bad faith, color (deceptive appearance), counterfeit, cover (pretext), deceit, disguise, excuse, false pretense, falsehood, falsification, fraud, histrionics, hoax, hypocrisy, imposture, indirection (deceitfulness), misstatement, pretext, rodomontade, role, sham, story (falsehood), subterfuge
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006