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:

Perhaps the crime isn't that cards are prepackaged but that they are false--the impersonal disguised as the personal, a mere pretense of affection, like corporate gift-giving, particularly when the company passes out prostitutes who, I'm told by corporate insiders, only pretend to like you.
Barking, however, undermines the pretense of a rational debate.
Then there was the pretense of simply presenting the facts, which put the author on a pedestal beyond the reach of quarrel and made his or her conclusion seem inexorable.
What makes the exhibition truly dreary, however, is the pretense that it's daring, when really it's an exercise in intellectual conformity.
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.