Anagrams of: TRAPNESTED

• having patterns (especially colorful patterns)

• covered with bright patches (often used in combination)

• (of devices and processes) protected by patent

• a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner

• having a parent or parents or cared for by parent surrogates

• prey on or hunt for

• be earlier in time; go back further

• come before

• establish something as being earlier relative to something else

• the enactment of a pretense

• imagined as in a play

• 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