pretendingly

English

Etymology

From pretending +‎ -ly.

Adverb

pretendingly (comparative more pretendingly, superlative most pretendingly)

1. So as to pretend.
   • 2013, Radu J. Bogdan, Mindvaults: Sociocultural Grounds for Pretending and Imagining:

     The disagreement starts with the species capable of pretend play, which necessarily entails disagreement over what the minds involved do in order to play pretendingly, and when.

2. As if by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously.
   • 1697, Jeremy Collier, Essays upon Several Moral Subjects:

     I have a particular Reason to look a little pretendingly at present; therefore I hope you will excuse it