fingimiento

m.

1 pretense.

2 feigning, play-acting, dissimulation, disguising.

3 pose, dissemblance, act, show.

4 affectedness.

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fingimiento

► nombre masculino

1 pretence (US pretense), simulation

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SM pretence, pretense (EEUU), feigning

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= pretence [pretense, -USA], dissimulation, dissembling.

Ex. Automated cataloging support systems, with any pretense to sophistication, did not begin to appear until the inception of the LC/MARC II (Library of Congress/Machine-Readable Cataloging) project in late 1967.

Ex. In fact, the terms of the contrast are highly ambivalent: order vs. anarchy, liberty vs. despotism, or industry vs. sloth, and also dissimulation vs. honesty.

Ex. The report did not directly accuse them of lying, but used more nuanced terms such as 'mendacity' and 'dissembling'.

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= pretence [pretense, -USA], dissimulation, dissembling.

Ex: Automated cataloging support systems, with any pretense to sophistication, did not begin to appear until the inception of the LC/MARC II (Library of Congress/Machine-Readable Cataloging) project in late 1967.

Ex: In fact, the terms of the contrast are highly ambivalent: order vs. anarchy, liberty vs. despotism, or industry vs. sloth, and also dissimulation vs. honesty.

Ex: The report did not directly accuse them of lying, but used more nuanced terms such as 'mendacity' and 'dissembling'.

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fingimiento

masculine

pretense*

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fingimiento nm

pretence;

su enfado es puro fingimiento he's only pretending to be angry

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fingimiento

m pretense, Br

pretence

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fingimiento nm

: pretense