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noun • a false or unsupportable quality • the advancing of a claim • the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth) | ||||||||
| 38% | 7 | Logical fallacy in which a claim is rejected by criticizing the person making the claim instead of the claim itself | ||||||
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| 27% | 7 | In advance, take care of claim | ||||||
noun • the enactment of a pretense adjective satellite • imagined as in a play verb • make believe with the intent to deceive • behave unnaturally or affectedly • put forward a claim and assert right or possession of • put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation • represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like • state insincerely | ||||||||
In Advance Give A Sort Of Force To Claim Crossword Clue
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PRETENSION which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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PRETENSION
Updated: October 14, 2023
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