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create a false impression — giving a false appearance, make an erroneous impression, create incorrect opinions … English contemporary dictionary
False flag — operations are covert operations conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, which are designed to appear as though they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false… … Wikipedia
False Decretals — • A name given to certain apocryphal papal letters contained in a collection of canon laws composed about the middle of the ninth century by an author who uses the pseudonym of Isidore Mercator, in the opening preface to the collection Catholic… … Catholic encyclopedia
False pregnancy — False pregnancy, most commonly termed pseudocyesis in humans and pseudopregnancy in other mammals, is the appearance of clinical and/or subclinical signs and symptoms associated with pregnancy when the person or animal is not pregnant. Clinically … Wikipedia
False document — A false document is a literary technique employed to create verisimilitude in a work of fiction. By inventing and inserting documents that appear to be factual, an author tries to create a sense of authenticity beyond the normal and expected… … Wikipedia
False protagonist — In fiction, a false protagonist is a technique for making a scene more jarring or a character more memorable by fooling the audience s preconceptions regarding who the story is really about. It involves presenting a character at the start of the… … Wikipedia
pretend — pre•tend [[t]prɪˈtɛnd[/t]] v. 1) to cause or attempt to cause (what is not so) to seem so; claim: pretending that nothing is wrong[/ex] 2) to put forward a false appearance of, as to deceive; feign: to pretend illness[/ex] 3) to make believe: The … From formal English to slang
pretense — n. feigning, pretending; impersonation; false show, false appearance; claim, assertion v. pretend, feign; impersonate; put on a false show, create a false appearance; claim wrongly, make a false assertion … English contemporary dictionary
pretensed — n. feigning, pretending; impersonation; false show, false appearance; claim, assertion v. pretend, feign; impersonate; put on a false show, create a false appearance; claim wrongly, make a false assertion … English contemporary dictionary
pretenses — n. feigning, pretending; impersonation; false show, false appearance; claim, assertion v. pretend, feign; impersonate; put on a false show, create a false appearance; claim wrongly, make a false assertion … English contemporary dictionary
