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Significados de pretext em inglês

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An artful or simulated semblance.

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        Something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason.

              pretexto

              Something serving to conceal plans.

                    Uso de pretext em inglês
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                    Opposition groups said the abrupt closure was a pretext to prevent protests.
                    Reuters
                    2
                    In his province, Mirabeau was the cause or pretext for the troubles.
                    A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6
                    3
                    He would go to South Africa on the pretext of a conference.
                    A change in altitude
                    4
                    Under the pretext of improving the law it can be easily emasculated.
                    The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox
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                    He stopped the Countess to look at the pretext of this excursion.
                    Monsieur de Camors — Volume 3
                    6
                    The pretext served also to make him the subject of many conversations.
                    Evan Harrington — Volume 7
                    7
                    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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                    They are a pretext, betraying its expansionist designs against Cyprus, Christofias said.
                    Reuters
                    9
                    A pretext, she had said; clearly she had seen through it all.
                    Wanderers
                    10
                    This was a trap of the right, a pretext to win elections.
                    The Guardian
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                    This retreat furnished the enemy with a pretext for claiming the victory.
                    The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. / Continued fro...
                    12
                    It is only a favourable pretext for the life I have chosen.
                    The Choice of Life
                    13
                    The terrible butchery which is being prepared has not even a pretext.
                    The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
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                    But, put in the other way, her pretext for coming appeared trivial.
                    Demos
                    15
                    When she needed to cry, the deceased count would be the pretext.
                    War and Peace
                    16
                    Luckily, I have a pretext for my unexpected visit in these dispatches.
                    Prince Eugene and His Times
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