The act of giving a false appearance.
An artful or simulated semblance.
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Examples for "pretext "
Examples for "pretext "
1 Opposition groups said the abrupt closure was a pretext to prevent protests.
2 In his province, Mirabeau was the cause or pretext for the troubles.
3 He would go to South Africa on the pretext of a conference.
4 Under the pretext of improving the law it can be easily emasculated.
5 He stopped the Countess to look at the pretext of this excursion.
1 Few expect Oxegen to reappear in its current guise any time soon.
2 Vinge warned that these inexpensive chips may create a guise for government.
3 Expect these to start showing up in OEM guise early next year.
4 In this guise she shall judge and decide the question which follows:
5 But Hillgarth had already come across him in a very different guise .
1 The flat means society life; that is, the pretence of social life.
2 Last year, Dr Schram was charged with obtaining employment through false pretence .
3 The same defiant note; but there was anxiety behind the cold pretence .
4 And now the Seneschal took refuge in a fine pretence of indignation.
5 There was a pretence of ordinary breakfast; the little servant necessitated that.
6 There was no longer even the pretence of knightly virtues in France.
7 Frowning: she had, it seemed, given up on all pretence of stillness.
8 It is the pretence of it, for base purposes, which is disgraceful.
9 Class elevation is pretence , not superiority; complacence, not wisdom; impudence, not power.
10 He had made a pretence to murder me with the same idea.
11 They're just having a nice time, dropping the pretence and having fun.
12 Their turgid rhetoric and exaggerated pretence did not seem natural to him.
13 But he pleases me most by his sincerity; he makes no pretence .
14 We cannot disguise hostility toward any religion behind the pretence of liberalism.
15 Altringer, on pretence of sickness, remained in the strong fortress of Frauenberg.
16 The pretence of their neutrality is not asset to the Soviet Union.
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