Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Destitute of pretense or pretension.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not having or making pretenses.

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  • adjective Not having or making pretenses.

Etymologies

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pretense +‎ -less

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Examples

  • In the subjoining pages, I offer to the world, a pretenseless record of the impressions, opinions, and convictions which have been, I may say, thrust upon me by a contact, which is yet necessarily limited, with the phases of every-day life.

    The Doctor's Daughter [pseud.] Vera

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