Words similar to pretense

Example sentences for: pretense

How can you use “pretense” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

"There is no pretense that this is about tourism or about a nice night out or this is entertainment.
He can drop the pretense that he's nonpartisan.
I am assuming, as the editor of this dictionary argues, that slang is not just colloquial language, but that it is often aggressively informal, that it doesn't tolerate pretense, that it is often crude, blunt, ribald, egalitarian--in short, very unpretentious and honest language.
Lawyers will understand that the author is inveighing against precedent only as a false pretense for fake precision, but an innocent layman straying into these pages might well take it from the broad-gauged blasts that the whole doctrine of precedent is a grand illusion, a sort of pseudo-science like astrology, in which lawyers and judges count the angels dancing on the point of a needle:
Most talk shows maintain at least the pretense of reasoned discussion: not Springer . The closest it gets to "debate" is a robed KKK moron assaulting a black guest, as in this clip from Too Hot for TV .