pretended

He is at last what he always pretended to be but never was: the Greatest.

One little girl attempted to smell at the trees in a drawing and pretended to feed some pictorial dogs.

Under the pressing circumstances the military authorities pretended to be doing something there, and sent up a commission.

The three fingers shot up at once and waved at me, but I pretended not to see them and turned to my guest.

At the island of Cebu, Magellan made friends with the king, who was baptised by the priests, and pretended to become a Christian.

One or two ast him square, I b'lieve, but he either pretended not to hear 'em, or got out of it somehow.