"pretend" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

pretend verbo

pretend + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 11
pretend interest • pretend ignorance • pretend surprise • pretend indifference • pretend innocence • ...
1. pretend interest = interes na niby pretend interest
2. pretend innocence = niewinność na niby pretend innocence
  • She would pretend innocence, while her brother learned the fact for himself.
  • Surely they would rather travel in the light of day, pretending innocence until they found a victim.
  • "But virtue does not consist in pretending innocence while placing a burden of crime upon someone else."
  • - At least she wasn't trying to pretend complete innocence.
  • She looked at me out of the corners of her eyes, pretending innocence.
  • They've done away with him, that's what, and now they're pretending innocence.
  • She had to pretend innocence, until she could afford to stop pretending.
  • I pretended innocence as he opened the door and caught my mother in her lover's arms.
  • So the best hope lay in doing what the partisans did: once the mission was lost, merging with the population and pretending innocence.
3. pretend friendship = przyjaźń na niby pretend friendship
(3) indifference, nonchalance
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + pretend
Kolokacji: 9
try to pretend • stop pretending • like to pretend • want to pretend • go to pretend • ...
pretend + preposición
Kolokacji: 5
pretend to • pretend for • pretend in • pretend with • pretend at
pretend + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 5
merely pretend • simply pretend • hardly pretend • politely pretend • initially pretend

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