"Pretendian" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "Blend of pretend + Indian.",
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    {
      "form": "Pretendians",
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      "expansion": "Pretendian (plural Pretendians)",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2016, MaryJanice Davidson, Danger, Sweetheart, page 104:",
          "text": "Natalie waited, expecting the usual white platitude, It's okay; I'm one-sixteenth Cherokee myself, or perhaps a dose of American Indian Princess Syndrome, or an acknowledgment of the glut of Pretendians of late.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Sarah Viren, The Native Scholar Who Wasn't, in The New York Times Magazine:",
          "text": "Although the United States has a long history of white people “playing Indian,” as the scholar Philip J. Deloria calls it in his book of the same name, the 1990s saw the beginning of what would eventually be significant pushback by Native Americans against so-called Pretendians or Pretend Indians, including the successful passage of a national law prohibiting non-Native people from marketing their art as 'Indian.'",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 June 28, Leyland Cecco, “Canadian woman gets three years’ jail in first ever sentencing for a ‘Pretendian’”, in the Guardian:",
          "text": "A Canadian woman who fraudulently claimed her daughters were Inuit has been sentenced to three years in jail, in what is believed to be the first ever custodial sentence for a “Pretendian”.",
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        "A person who falsely claims to have Native American or Indigenous Canadian ancestry."
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        "(informal, derogatory) A person who falsely claims to have Native American or Indigenous Canadian ancestry."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "fantasist"
        },
        {
          "word": "fantast"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "word": "pretendian"
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      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "informal"
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      "wikipedia": [
        "Pretendian"
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  "etymology_text": "Blend of pretend + Indian.",
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    {
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  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "fantasist"
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    {
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        "English terms with quotations",
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          "ref": "2016, MaryJanice Davidson, Danger, Sweetheart, page 104:",
          "text": "Natalie waited, expecting the usual white platitude, It's okay; I'm one-sixteenth Cherokee myself, or perhaps a dose of American Indian Princess Syndrome, or an acknowledgment of the glut of Pretendians of late.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Sarah Viren, The Native Scholar Who Wasn't, in The New York Times Magazine:",
          "text": "Although the United States has a long history of white people “playing Indian,” as the scholar Philip J. Deloria calls it in his book of the same name, the 1990s saw the beginning of what would eventually be significant pushback by Native Americans against so-called Pretendians or Pretend Indians, including the successful passage of a national law prohibiting non-Native people from marketing their art as 'Indian.'",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 June 28, Leyland Cecco, “Canadian woman gets three years’ jail in first ever sentencing for a ‘Pretendian’”, in the Guardian:",
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        "(informal, derogatory) A person who falsely claims to have Native American or Indigenous Canadian ancestry."
      ],
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      ],
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    {
      "word": "pretendian"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Pretendian"
}