| Clue | Length | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| Stress follows before a claim | 10 letters | pretension |
| ||
Likely related crossword puzzle clues
- Lofty aspiration
- Self-importance
- showiness before the strain shows
- Airs
- Claim or title to
- Claim or title to something
- stress follows before making a claim
- Advancing of a claim
- Feigning before strain
- Stress follows before a claim
- Ostentatiousness
- Pretence
- Excuse
- Assertion
- Foolish self-importance
- Window dressing
- Barnumism
- Acting
- Affectation
- Affectedness
- airs and graces
- Alibi
- Ambitions
- ambitiousness
- apology
- Appearance
- appurtenance
- Artificiality
- Aspiration
- attitudinizing
- Authority
- bedizenment
- big talk
- Birthright
- Blind
- Bluff
- bluffing
- Charade
- Cheating
- Claim
- Cloak
- Color
- Coloring
- conjugal right
- Cover story?
- Cover up
- Deception
- Delusion
- Demand
- Device
- Disguise
- dissemblance
- Dissembling
- Dissimulation
- divine right
- droit
- Due
- Facade
- Face
- Faculty
- Fakery
- faking
- false air
- False front
- False show
- Falsity
- feigned belief
- Feigning
- Feint
- Flashiness
- flatulence
- flatulency
- four flushing
- Fraud
- Front
- fulsomeness
- Garishness
- Gaudiness
- Gilt
- Gloss
- Grandiloquence
- grandioseness
- Grandiosity
- Guise
- Handle
- high flown diction
- "......, humbug!"
- humbuggery
- Hypocrisy
- Image
- Imposture
- inalienable right
- inflatedness
- inflation
- Insincerity
- Interest
- Lame excuse
- lexiphanicism
- locus standi
- Loftiness
- lofty affectations
- luridness
- magniloquence
- Make-believe
- Mannerism
- Mask
- Masquerade
- Mere rhetoric
- mere show
- meretriciousness
- natural right
- orotundity
- Ostensible motive
- ostent
- Ostentation
- ostentatious complexity
- Outward show
- Pageant
- platitudinous ponderosity
- playacting
- polysyllabic profundity
- Pomposity
- pompous prolixity
- Pompousness
- pontification
- poor excuse
- POSE
- Posing
- Posture
- Power
- Prerogative
- prescription
- presumptive right
- Pretending
- Pretense
- Pretensions
- Pretentiousness
- Pretext
- proper claim
- Property right
- prose run mad
- Protestation
- prunes and prisms
- Public image
- public motive
- Put off
- Put on
- Putting on airs
- Refuge
- Representation
- Rhetoric
- rhetoricalness
- Right
- Screen
- Seeming
- Semblance
- Sensationalism
- sententiousness
- Sham
- Show ......
- Showiness
- Simulacrum
- simulation
- Smoke screen
- speciousness
- stalking horse
- stiltedness
- Stratagem
- Stylishness
- Subterfuge
- swelling utterance
- swollen phrase
- Swollenness
- tall talk
- Title
- tortuosity
- Tortuousness
- Trick
- tumidity
- tumidness
- turgescence
- turgidity
- unnaturalness
- Varnish
- veil
- vested interest
- vested right