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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



... off than when I first met Dorothy," he thought. "Then, I was stuck on a pole in a cornfield, where I could make-believe scare the crows, at any rate. But surely there is no use for a Scarecrow stuck on a pole in the middle of a river. I am afraid I shall never have any ...
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... falsity, for he has not enough of deep and lasting impression to find a contrast or diversity between his words and his thoughts. He is not fairly to be called a hypocrite, but I have already confessed to the more exasperation at his make-believe reverence, because it has no deep ...
— Impressions of Theophrastus Such • George Eliot
... fool. Lilith in a moment of terror acknowledges that her dignified reserve was the cloak of passion, and Eve acknowledges that her profession of love was transferred to the wrong man; both ladies recover their self-possession and resume their make-believe decorums, and Adam, like a gallant gentleman, will not see through what is transparent. These are harmless jests at the ironies of life. Browning's best gifts in this volume, that looks pale beside its predecessors, ...
— Robert Browning • Edward Dowden
... laughed Freddie. "You ought to have seen that monkey's face when he bit on those make-believe cherries on Flossie's hat!" and ...
— The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City • Laura Lee Hope
... purple skirt, "to think o' my bein' kissed by so many men, in my old days!—but why not?—it may be my last chance, as Joe Fairthorn says, and laugh if you please, I've got the best of it; and I don't belie my natur', for twistin' your head away and screechin' is only make-believe, and the more some screeches the more they want to be kissed; but fair and square, say I,—if you want it take it, and that's ...
— The Story Of Kennett • Bayard Taylor


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