pretends
Synonyms
Examples
Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
The one who hasn't strength to pound yams pretends to drive away flies from the yams.