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