pretendingly
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pretending + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]pretendingly (comparative more pretendingly, superlative most pretendingly)
- So as to pretend.
- 2013, Radu J. Bogdan, Mindvaults: Sociocultural Grounds for Pretending and Imagining:
- The disagreement starts with the species capable of pretend play, which necessarily entails disagreement over what the minds involved do in order to play pretendingly, and when.
- As if by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously.
- 1697, Jeremy Collier, Essays upon Several Moral Subjects:
- I have a particular Reason to look a little pretendingly at present; therefore I hope you will excuse it