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Meanings of false pretence in английском
(Law) an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation.
Usage of false pretence in английском
1
Last year, Dr Schram was charged with obtaining employment through false pretence.
2
She at once discovered the unfinished correspondence to be a false pretence.
3
The conflict is cleared of all false pretence and paltry excuses.
4
Campaigns of vilification, corruption and false pretence have lost their usefulness.
5
What false pretence is there in merely inviting another to cash a check?
6
Here began the new life-thatof concealment and false pretence.
7
He left home on a false pretence, and never returned.
8
Lo, what false pretence can the devil send amongst us?
9
So he is only come to cheat me by a false pretence of peace!
10
This is the voice of nature and truth, and not of inconsistency and false pretence.
11
She secures her husband's embraces under a false pretence.
12
I cannot come here to-night on a false pretence.
13
Albert Schram was arrested last week in Port Moresby and charged with obtaining employment through false pretence.
14
In everything false pretence is bad, for it suspends and vitiates our power of discerning the truth.
15
The money had been advanced under a false impression, if not absolutely borrowed under a false pretence.
16
This is a false pretence, which criminals use to gain access to homes and rob their victims blind.
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