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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.

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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
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In his province, Mirabeau was the cause or pretext for the troubles.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6
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He would go to South Africa on the pretext of a conference.
A change in altitude
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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
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The pretext served also to make him the subject of many conversations.
Evan Harrington — Volume 7
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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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They are a pretext, betraying its expansionist designs against Cyprus, Christofias said.
Reuters
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A pretext, she had said; clearly she had seen through it all.
Wanderers
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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...
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It is only a favourable pretext for the life I have chosen.
The Choice of Life
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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
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When she needed to cry, the deceased count would be the pretext.
War and Peace
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Luckily, I have a pretext for my unexpected visit in these dispatches.
Prince Eugene and His Times
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