Usage of "false pretence"

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

Uso de false pretence en inglés

Last year, Dr Schram was charged with obtaining employment through false pretence. 
 Radio NZ 

She at once discovered the unfinished correspondence to be a false pretence. 
 Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time 

The conflict is cleared of all false pretence and paltry excuses. 
 Through the Iron Bars: Two Years of German Occupation in Belgium 

Campaigns of vilification, corruption and false pretence have lost their usefulness. 
 Public Speaking: Principles and Practice 

What false pretence is there in merely inviting another to cash a check? 
 The Confessions of Artemas Quibble / Being the Ingenuous and Unv... 

Here began the new life-thatof concealment and false pretence. 
 Blind Love 

He left home on a false pretence, and never returned. 
 Ernest Linwood; or, The Inner Life of the Author 

Lo, what false pretence can the devil send amongst us? 
 Sermons on the Card, and Other Discourses 

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... 

This is the voice of nature and truth, and not of inconsistency and false pretence. 
 Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke 

She secures her husband's embraces under a false pretence. 
 More Pages from a Journal 

I cannot come here to-night on a false pretence. 
 Laicus; Or, the Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish. 

Albert Schram was arrested last week in Port Moresby and charged with obtaining employment through false pretence. 
 Radio NZ 

In everything false pretence is bad, for it suspends and vitiates our power of discerning the truth. 
 Treatises on Friendship and Old Age 

The money had been advanced under a false impression, if not absolutely borrowed under a false pretence. 
 Henrietta Temple: A Love Story 

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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