pretendingly

Strange as it may seem, while Mr. Wolcott was abroad, pretendingly for the purpose of procuring bimetallism by international agreement, the President and Secretary of the Treasury were working up a scheme to have the gold standard adopted according to the tenor of the Indianapolis platform.

One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed C. A. Bogardus

(I wonder if anyone ever yet loitered around a place pretendingly to no purpose without immediately betraying that he was full of purpose.)

Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense [pseud.] Vera

The charge of inspiring prophets with false messages is founded, pretendingly, upon 1st Kings 22: 22, 23, Jeremiah 4: 10, and Ezekiel 14:

The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880 Various

The honeyed address, however, by which the conspirators attempted to cajole the Lord into unwariness, indicated that the question they were about to submit was one requiring for its proper answer just such qualities of mind as they pretendingly attributed to Him.

Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern James Edward Talmage 1897

She possessed the genius of music, which is melody, unweakened by those exaggerated affectations with which it is often encumbered by what is pretendingly called science.

The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish James Fenimore Cooper 1820