An artful or simulated semblance.
Something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason.
Something serving to conceal plans.
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.
6 The pretext served also to make him the subject of many conversations.
7 The ruffians were only glad of the slightest pretext for further brutality.
8 They are a pretext , betraying its expansionist designs against Cyprus, Christofias said.
9 A pretext , she had said; clearly she had seen through it all.
10 This was a trap of the right, a pretext to win elections.
11 This retreat furnished the enemy with a pretext for claiming the victory.
12 It is only a favourable pretext for the life I have chosen.
13 The terrible butchery which is being prepared has not even a pretext .
14 But, put in the other way, her pretext for coming appeared trivial.
15 When she needed to cry, the deceased count would be the pretext .
16 Luckily, I have a pretext for my unexpected visit in these dispatches.
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