Definitions for pretenders

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pretenders pre·tend·er

Spelling: [pri-ten-der]

IPA: /prɪˈtɛn dər/

Pretenders is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 364 anagrams from letters in pretenders (deeenprrst).

Definitions for pretenders

noun

1. a person who pretends, especially for a dishonest purpose.
2. an aspirant or claimant (often followed by to):
3. a person who makes unjustified or false claims, statements, etc., as about personal status, abilities, intentions, or the like:

Origin of pretenders

First recorded in 1585-95; pretend + -er¹

Examples for pretenders

All was jolly and genial between the king of late night and the pretender to the throne.

Rush Limbaugh has called Dede Scozzafava a “pretender” and an “extreme liberal Republican” who “might as well be a Democrat.”

Is it to the emblem of the House of York, or the badge of the pretender?

He has an air, it is true, but his air is not a breeze, like the air of a pretender to fashion.

And yet you see after all I am like to turn out only a pretender.

The General asked him "if he had been along with the pretender?"

And cancer, deceiver, pretender, coward; it cannot even subsist without the vibrant people it depends on.

The moment might be propitious to the pretender, however false his claim.

A particular account of the "pretender's Magazine" is extant.

Some say the pretender was in the battle, and wounded; but others say he was not.