Pulis, speaking before his side host experienced European campaigners Valencia in a Europa League Round of 32 first leg match on Thursday, urged the English FA to take tougher action against offenders.
"I cannot stand the sight of players rolling around. It really goes against the grain of British football," he told reporters.
"But from what I've seen abroad and, in a few cases here, it's a growing disease. Players aren't even touched and they're falling over. It puts enormous pressure on referees.
"I watch Spanish football and they're regularly doing it over there and everyone just takes it as the norm. But I don't think it is clever. I think it's cheating.
"I've seen instances where players are looking to get the other player sent off. It's wrong, completely wrong. They're all in the same profession."
At the same briefing, Stoke striker Peter Crouch said that he hoped Fabio Capello's exit as England manager last week would give him the chance to re-establish himself in the team.
Crouch said: "I've not been in the last few squads. Whoever takes over hopefully will start picking me again but it's only what you do for your club that warrants getting in the England setup again so I've got to play well for Stoke, score goals and hopefully that will come."
Valencia, winners of the Inter Cities Fairs Cup, the UEFA Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup in the past and beaten finalists in the 2000 and 2001 Champions League finals, finished third in their Champions League group to drop into the Europa League.
Their last European match was also in England, when they were beaten 3-0 at Chelsea in their final Champions League group match in December.
