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Make-believe   /meɪk-bɪlˈiv/   Listen
noun
make-believe  n.  A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." "To forswear self-delusion and make-believe."


adjective
Make-believe  adj.  
1.
Feigned; insincere. "Make-believe reverence."
2.
Imaginary; as, the child had a make-believe friend to whom he often talked.





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"Make-believe" Quotes from Famous Books



... conventional or traditional character, so that the word realism cannot be applied to them. Even in his portraits his signature or an inscription is often added in such a manner as insists that this is a painting, a panel;—not a view through a window, or an attempt to deceive the eye with a make-believe reality. ...
— Albert Durer • T. Sturge Moore
... selfish," she faltered ahead, "that she preferred a make-believe husband to a real husband, because—because so she thought she would be ...
— The Triflers • Frederick Orin Bartlett
... Tom he need make no concessions to the fact that he is to have two fairly well-dressed women along. We will go as they go, without any fuss, or they may leave us at home. I despise those condescending, make-believe-rough-it trips, with which men flatter women into thinking themselves genuine campaigners. Consequently our outfit is a big, bony ranch-team and a Shuttler wagon with the double-sides in; spring seats, of course, ...
— A Touch Of Sun And Other Stories • Mary Hallock Foote
... lived in a fairy world of freedom, of dreams and make-believe. They talked of great hunters and discussed the best methods of attacking ...
— The Southerner - A Romance of the Real Lincoln • Thomas Dixon
... hunters at the temporary camp were aroused to a high pitch of excitement. Some turned their buffalo robes and put them on in such a way as to convert themselves into make-believe bison, and began to tread the snow, while others were singing the buffalo song, that their spirits might be charmed and allured within the circle of the camp-fires. The scout, too, was singing his buffalo bull song in a guttural, ...
— Indian Child Life • Charles A. Eastman


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