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Meanings of false pretence in English

(Law) an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation.

        Usage of false pretence in English
        1
        Last year, Dr Schram was charged with obtaining employment through false pretence.
        Radio NZ
        2
        She at once discovered the unfinished correspondence to be a false pretence.
        Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time
        3
        The conflict is cleared of all false pretence and paltry excuses.
        Through the Iron Bars: Two Years of German Occupation in Belgium
        4
        Campaigns of vilification, corruption and false pretence have lost their usefulness.
        Public Speaking: Principles and Practice
        5
        What false pretence is there in merely inviting another to cash a check?
        The Confessions of Artemas Quibble / Being the Ingenuous and Unv...
        6
        Here began the new life-thatof concealment and false pretence.
        Blind Love
        7
        He left home on a false pretence, and never returned.
        Ernest Linwood; or, The Inner Life of the Author
        8
        Lo, what false pretence can the devil send amongst us?
        Sermons on the Card, and Other Discourses
        9
        So he is only come to cheat me by a false pretence of peace!
        The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 / The Later Ren...
        10
        This is the voice of nature and truth, and not of inconsistency and false pretence.
        Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
        11
        She secures her husband's embraces under a false pretence.
        More Pages from a Journal
        12
        I cannot come here to-night on a false pretence.
        Laicus; Or, the Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish.
        13
        Albert Schram was arrested last week in Port Moresby and charged with obtaining employment through false pretence.
        Radio NZ
        14
        In everything false pretence is bad, for it suspends and vitiates our power of discerning the truth.
        Treatises on Friendship and Old Age
        15
        The money had been advanced under a false impression, if not absolutely borrowed under a false pretence.
        Henrietta Temple: A Love Story
        16
        This is a false pretence, which criminals use to gain access to homes and rob their victims blind.
        The South African
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