Synonyms for false pretense
| Grammar : Noun |
Définition of false pretense
- noun offense of false representation
- The people will see beneath the false pretense the bare, naked facts.
- Extract from : « Government by the Brewers? » by Adolph Keitel
- The wretch had left her on false pretense in a den of shame.
- Extract from : « Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls » by Various
- "It is a false pretense;" and she scorned all false pretenses.
- Extract from : « A Captain in the Ranks » by George Cary Eggleston
- I am obnoxious to a party, and they adopt a false pretense to cut me off.
- Extract from : « Harper's Magazine, Vol III, June 1851 » by Various
- So he flushed, and felt that he was obtaining the required permission by false pretense.
- Extract from : « The Revellers » by Louis Tracy
- These he scorned the more bitterly for their false pretense, demanding plain meat and a lot of it.
- Extract from : « The Wrong Twin » by Harry Leon Wilson
- “I have been arousing your sympathy by false pretense,” he said, and the laughter in his voice demanded a real effort.
- Extract from : « The Terms of Surrender » by Louis Tracy
- He always applauds a forgery, a false pretense, or a lie: he calls it a stratagem.
- Extract from : « Cyrus the Great » by Jacob Abbott
- He would not suffer her kindness under a false pretense; he could at least be honest with her.
- Extract from : « The Main Chance » by Meredith Nicholson
- She could not afford anything pretentious in dress, and she would make no false pretense.
- Extract from : « A Captain in the Ranks » by George Cary Eggleston
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