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Jeannie Most will do something on famous party crashing (this will be the best piece in the whole 10 days because it won't pretent to be what it is not), and then probably two days of coverage of the coverage.
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If you are going to pretent to be a "straight" news network then you will need to stop these lies and distortions.
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These people cannot accept a black president and make all kinds of side issues to pretent that is what they are protesting.
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They can pretent to listen, but they have no intention in backing down on their stale dogma until they are forcibly shown the door.
The spotlight begins to shine on the coalition's flaws and faultlines | Andrew Rawnsley 2011
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Holsteins may be graphically interesting for artists, but they look stupid, whereas Guernseys at least pretent to be intelligent.
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| Reply | Permalink you should do some actual research before you make charges against Obama, especially charges which rely on the stereotype of the 'uppity black man'. the story was debunked, HERE ON TPM, before 9 AM! jeeez, people, can you even pretent to try at this stuff?
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Hey Markey, when you were quote mining, you missed this one from Wood's original note: "I do not pretent to have gone very deeply into the matter,..."
Eli Rabett and RW Wood EliRabett 2009
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I find it amusing that these lefties pretent to be so scared of government intruding in their lives with collecting too much information, but then blames the government for not having enough data on them for the government to cross-check names to confirm they are the same person!
Sound Politics: More on the bogus finding in the voter registration court case 2006
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If I want to be as stupid as I sound and pretent that the energy crisis we face is not real then ….
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The Libs tried there usual tactick of crying foul just before the local paper is published to pretent that other parties are nasty and they are innocent little lambs.
hemoglobin commented on the word pretent
one syl/abrev lang for pretentious. the act of saying the word gives a pretentious air therefore making the use of it even more hilarious.
November 2, 2009
jennarenn commented on the word pretent
How do you pronounce that in one syllable? My tongue can't hack it.
November 2, 2009
mollusque commented on the word pretent
Eat peanut butter first.
November 2, 2009
bilby commented on the word pretent
Pnutbr.
November 2, 2009