Meanings (ES + gloss)
achaque • pretensión • pretenso
The action of pretending; false or simulated show or appearance; false or hypocritical assertion or representation.
"Lady Little", the title that she used, was just a pretense.
He visited the king under the pretense of friendliness.
cubierta
An unsupported claim made or implied.
He was gentlemanly, steady, tractable, with a thorough knowledge of his duties; and in time, when yet very young, he became chief mate of a fine ship, without ever having been test…
They wished to demask hidden metaphysics, to demask the false pretenses of sentences purportively descriptive but de facto metaphysical or evaluative.
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