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Meanings of false pretense in inglês
(Law) an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation.
Usage of false pretense in inglês
1
But I cannot send you out of the country on a false pretense.
2
It was marriage in its cold, business-like actuality, without hypnotism, superstition, or false pretense.
3
Please pardon me for believing that is a false pretense.
4
You have accepted my hospitality and confidence under false pretense?
5
Their assumed anxiety to stay, is false pretense.
6
These he scorned the more bitterly for their false pretense, demanding plain meat and a lot of it.
7
I rebel against hypocrisy, I hate false pretense, often I make myself out worse than I really am.
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For violently seizing and confining the plaintiff in a certain place, on a false pretense that he was insane.
9
His upright, honest nature, though capable of great reserve, was utterly incapable of false pretense, deceit, or self-interested diplomacy.
10
When he fails to do so, he violates his contract, breaks his pledge of honor, obtains goods under false pretense.
11
He was conscious, too, of a sense of shame that he had, in a way, accepted her confidence under false pretense.
12
They wanted Luthando to come over under the false pretense of drinking whisky with his friend so that the officer could arrest him.
13
Here was a crowning proof of his hatred of all sham and false pretense, and his intense love of solid, thorough, finished work.
14
In the car, Alison told Patrick that he'd come under false pretenses.
15
It was as if I had accepted a job under false pretenses.
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In his passion he went on: You're aboard here under false pretenses.