Described and Pretended

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Described adjective - Represented in words especially with sharpness and detail.

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Pretended and described are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pretended" instead an adjective "Described".

Nearby Words: describe, description, describing

Pretended adjective - Lacking in natural or spontaneous quality.

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Described and pretended are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Described" instead an adjective "Pretended".

ComStar pretended to be one of these but due to their control of the HPG network and their significant political influence and aspirations they were better described as an N.G.O.

Source: Tabletop Game / BattleTech
Boy Blue is a veteran of countless battles in a Hopeless War and his Roaring Rampage of Rescue through the homelands gets him described in-universe as the sort of guy Errol Flynn only pretended to be in his films.

Source: Humble Goal
While this isn't an example of astroturfing (EA described it as the equivalent of voting for yourself in an election), it did inspire a case of astroturfing astroturfing, where fans of The Witcher went on The Witcher 2's Metacritic page, gave the game of zero, and pretended to be BioWare employees.

Source: Creator / BioWare

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