- Feign - Make believe - Play act - Pose as - Pose as, pretend - To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim. - To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise
for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.
- Pose as, pretend - Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor. - Disguise; covering. - To intend to show; to intend; to mean; to signify; to
import; -- often with an object clause or infinitive.