pretended
adjective
insincerely or falsely professed.
pretendedly
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a word derived from
pretended.
Example Sentences
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And she followed him through another 209 tour of the room, turning her averted head from side to side in pretendedly ranging the floor with her eyes.
From The Continental Dragoon A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 by Robert Neilson Stephens
He spoke with a pretendedly grave consideration of the subject.
From Destiny by Charles Neville Buck
She fingered the length of ravelled bordering that drooped from the hair-cloth cushion of her chair and ran an eye, pretendedly speculative, up and down the pink and green stripes of Mrs. Bates's wall-paper.
From With the Procession by Henry Blake Fuller
In short, money is the beginning, the middle, and the end of every kind of act done by Mr. Hastings: pretendedly for the Company, but really for himself.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
"No. If you will wait, I will tell master," said Hedwig, not at all flattered by being pretendedly taken for "the daughter of the house."
From The Son of Clemenceau by Alexandre Dumas fils
