• v.
    ⦿state insincerely
    lexical concept
  • He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt
  • She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber
  • She pretends to be an expert on wine

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:pretend
  2. enl:profess
wn:interlingual indexili:i25478

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelpretendprofess