Adjective:

ਨਕਲੀ,

pretended's Usage Examples:

So, Matt pretended to be his own twin, who was a glibber and more enthusiastic party boy.

to cut the telegraph lines, but successfully pretended to be overworked wiremen.

Sheng told him that he was going to Jing Province, Sima Yi pretended to mishear it as "Bing Province" at least twice.

"nothingseer-like himself made" ("[he or she] pretended to see nothing").

The Act asserted "certain ancient rights and liberties" by declaring that: the pretended power of suspending the laws and dispensing with laws.

something very different from the sententious couplets which Congreve perfunctorily tagged on to plays which pretended to neither feeling nor morality.

Li Jing came to suspect that Li Yuan was plotting a rebellion, and therefore pretended to commit a crime and asked to be locked up and delivered to Emperor Yang, who was then at Jiangdu (江都, in modern Yangzhou, Jiangsu).

During this time, Cao Xiu fell for a ruse by a Wu military officer Zhou Fang, who pretended to defect to Wei in order to lure Wei forces into a trap.

On 5 February 1782, the 18-year-old Prince of Phaungka pretended to be a king and entered the palace and seized the throne while his cousin.

across, he tells the story of how he pretended to be hypnotized by a “mesmerizer,” a hypnotist referred to as Hicks, who visited his hometown when he was.

of Ortega y Gasset: Andalusia, which has never shown the swagger nor petulancy of particularism; that has never pretended to the status of a State apart.

Skabichevsky thought it was ridiculous the way the magazine which pretended to be the guiding light of the Russian intelligentsia had fallen for the Rich Fiancé where this very same intelligentsia (in the Shamilov character) was dragged through the mud.

We cannot, however, suppose that an insignificant place like Tenea could have acted in opposition to Corinth and the Achaean League; and it is more probable that the Teneatae were spared by Mummius in consequence of their pretended Trojan descent and consequent affinity with the Romans themselves.

Synonyms:

sham, put on, assumed, imitative, false, fictive, counterfeit, fictitious,

Antonyms:

true, natural, sincere, real, genuine,