French English Dictionary

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faire semblant in English:

1. shamming shamming


He was only shamming.
He's only shamming.

English word "faire semblant"(shamming) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Just Folks" (Edgar A. Guest)
Fiches du livre - "Gobseck" (Honore de Balzac)
Fiches du livre - "The Outrage" (Annie Vivanti)
Fiches du livre - "A Tramp's Scraps" (H. I. M. Self)
Fiches du livre - "A Little Boy Lost" (W. H. Hudson)

2. pretend pretend


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.

English word "faire semblant"(pretend) occurs in sets:

500 most important French verbs 451 - 475
Fiches du livre - "Georgian Folk Tales" (Unknown)
Fiches du livre - "Five Little Plays" (Alfred Sutro)
Fiches du livre - "The Romantic Lady" (Michael Arlen)
Fiches du livre - "The Chase of the Ruby" (Richard...