"mere" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- She felt their downdraft, but knew it was not enough; her effort at flight was mere pretense.
- Or like a shell, paper-thin, the mere pretense of a man.
- It was all only the mere pretense of a city, he thought dismally.
- Of course, the platform was mere pretense - "dialectics," as the Communists would call it.
- They could not be certain, either, that those denials were not mere pretense on his part.
- Religious motivations in secular affairs, he said, "were disregarded or dismissed as mere pretense."
- I had no way to bring him here; such was mere pretense on my part.
- In other cases, the association is mere pretense.
- The Shadow's unusual encounter with the law had been a mere pretense of battle.
- Danzig was a mere pretense, as the Fuehrer had told his generals.
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