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Meanings of slightest pretext in English

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Usage of slightest pretext in English
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The ruffians were only glad of the slightest pretext for further brutality.
Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigands of Greece
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One's host now brought out a bottle upon the slightest pretext.
The Beautiful and Damned
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They were fond of a fight, and fought like demons on the slightest pretext.
The King's Arrow: A Tale of the United Empire Loyalists
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You curse, revile and scorn Him on the slightest pretext.
The Fourth Watch
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They are jealous of us, and they'll be at it on the slightest pretext.
All for a Scrap of Paper: A Romance of the Present War
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He would demand, or take, an "easy" on the slightest pretext.
The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography
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Still less was it conceivable that Catherine would give him the slightest pretext for such daring.
Daniel Deronda
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At last, when alone with her behind closed doors, he would thrash her on the slightest pretext.
Original Short Stories — Volume 08
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They improvised sonnets and madrigals; they praised each other in verse; they wrote long letters on the slightest pretext.
The Women of the French Salons
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But, Madame, there is not the slightest pretext for a divorce in anything that you have told me here.
A Selection from the Writings of Guy De Maupassant, Vol. I
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You will have to run foul of a thousand different interests, and not give the slightest pretext for slander.
The Grip of Desire: The Story of a Parish-Priest
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She had passed a very bad day, and always on such days she would weep on the slightest pretext.
Paula the Waldensian
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On the slightest pretext the Tibetans arrest, torture mercilessly, fine, and confiscate property of, British subjects on British territory.
In the Forbidden Land / An account of a journey in Tibet, captur...
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The slightest pretext would suffice to throw you into prison- aletter , aword ,anact capable of being misconstrued.
The Honor of the Name
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As a result Negroes were systematically arrested on the slightest pretext and the labor of convicts leased to private parties.
The Negro
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First Max has to deal with his volatile deputy Adele, who's capable of losing her temper at the slightest pretext.
Radio NZ
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