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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



... bidding. I'm not a free man; I'm—don't be offended—I'm your creature. I don't say I was a free man before this came up. I haven't been a free man ever since I've been Herbert Strange. I've been the slave of a sort of make-believe. I've made believe, and I've felt I was justified. Perhaps I was. I'm not quite sure. But I haven't liked it; and now I begin to feel that I can't stand it any longer. You follow ...
— The Wild Olive • Basil King
... close to Robert. She even gave him a quick, friendly touch. He could almost hear her say, "Tag, Robert!" but he would not look at her. And yet the moment after he knew that it was all make-believe. His anger was a sham, protecting something that was fragile and afraid of pain. Now that she had gone out of the barren little room she had taken with her the sense of a secret, gracious intimacy which had been its warmth and colour. He saw that the sunlight had ...
— The Dark House • I. A. R. Wylie
... lived in a fairy world of freedom, of dreams and make-believe. They talked of great hunters and discussed the best methods of attacking all ...
— The Southerner - A Romance of the Real Lincoln • Thomas Dixon
... "You were just make-believe. I was the real thing—a real thief. No, let me go on; it's easier if you don't interrupt. Yes, I'll tell you my name, but it won't mean anything. I'm nobody. I'm Sarah Manvers. I'm a shop-girl ...
— Nobody • Louis Joseph Vance
... notwithstanding the wretchedness of the past days, he was as far off as ever from understanding. But he was loath to begin; he sat in a kind of torpor, conscious only of the objects his eyes rested on: some children had built a make-believe house of pebbles, with a path leading up to the doorway, and at this he gazed, estimating the crude architectural ideas that had occurred to the childish builders. He felt the wind in his hair, and listened to the soothing noise it made, high above his head. But gradually overcoming ...
— Maurice Guest • Henry Handel Richardson


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