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Synonyms and Antonyms of pretense
- She seemed to be a very down-to-earth woman who was completely free of pretense.
arrogance, bumptiousness, complacency, conceit, egotism, hauteur, imperiousness, pompousness, presumptuousness, pride, self-aggrandizement, self-assertion, self-assumption, self-conceit, self-consequence, self-glorification, self-importance, self-satisfaction, smugness, vaingloriousness, vainglory, vainness, vanity
disdain, haughtiness, lordliness, snobbery, snobbishness, superciliousness, superiority
confidence, presumption, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness
flamboyance, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, mummery, ostentation, ostentatiousness, show, showiness
- Her display of bravado was just a pretense.
- This book on gardening makes no pretense at completeness.
call, claim, dibs, pretension, right
- the pretense of that woman in thinking that the other hotel guests should be inconvenienced just for her
authoritativeness, bossiness, dominance, high-handedness
chest-thumping, inflation, self-assertion, snobbery, snobbishness, snobbism, snootiness
attitude, cheek, cheekiness, impertinence, impudence, sauciness
boastfulness, bombast, bravado, strut, swagger, triumphalism, vaingloriousness, vainglory
cockiness, complacence, conceit, egoism, egotism, pride, pridefulness, self-assumption, self-centeredness, self-complacency, self-conceit, self-content, self-contentment, self-opinion, self-partiality, self-satisfaction, smugness, swelled head, vanity
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