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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not having or making
pretenses .
Etymologies
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pretense + -less
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Examples
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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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