late som in inglese:

Tom wondered if he should pretend to appreciate the dinner Mary made for him.

Even if you know the truth, you had better pretend otherwise at present.

Don't pretend

for you i could pretend like i was happy when i was sad

If she finds out that that uniform was one I bought to get my former girlfriend to be a pretend 'high school girl' ...

Everyone knows that theatre is a world of let's pretend.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

The neighborhood has been gentrified. Now it's teeming with pretend hipsters slurping skinny lattes at Starbucks. They gather round coffee and free Wi-Fi like bees round a honeypot.

People sometimes pretend to be deaf when they hear a question they don't want to answer

He doesn’t pretend to enjoy the work, but he says that the atmosphere is much nicer than in the Houses of Parliament.

If you feel pain it means that you didn/t pretend.

I thought he was very rude when he pretended not to hear me.

Did you ever pretend to be ill so you didn't have to go to school?

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.