Pretences is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PRETENCES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• PRETENCE, the act of pretending, also PRETENSE
• an attempt to make something that is not the case appear true
• a false display of feelings, attitudes, or intentions
• the practice of inventing imaginary situations in play
• affected and ostentatious speech and behaviour
• a claim to have a particular skill or quality

Words related to PRETENCES

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How to use PRETENCES in a sentence

• Delay succeeded delay, under various pretences, to the disappointment of the country, and the indignation of the responsible government.
• Enormous sums, under various pretences, flowed to Rome.
• The world is full of these wanderings, under various pretences of gain, adventure, or curiosity, hiding the real impulse of flight.
• Here now is autumn, and Gaston no longer even favours us with pretences.
• Bolton almost wished that a shorter visit had been arranged in order that she might at once commence her hostile operations without any intermediate and hypocritical pretences.
• The Bey was much too shrewd a fellow, especially in the matter of presents, to be imposed upon by any such Yankee pretences.
• He set up no pretences which arose from absolute conquest.
• What do you mean by getting our skates into your charge under false pretences? I was about to send the police to take them from you.
• But I was, I found, unwittingly travelling under false pretences.
• These maxims of government were not kept secret by Elizabeth, nor smoothed over by any fair appearances or plausible pretences.
• On like pretences, every cause which regarded conscience, that is, every cause, could have been brought under their jurisdiction.
• By this time his Polish majesty had acceded to the treaty of Nymphenburgh, and declared war against the queen of Hungary, on the most frivolous pretences.
• But alas! these excuses are but bare pretences, these proud ones love to have it so.
• She gave him to understand that no pretences were longer possible between them, but that they would get along without them.
• That evening such things would have been mere hypocrisy, pretences of a desire to keep him for herself when her whole nature was in revolt at having to be near him.
• President, stripped of their disguises, are the real pretences set up in behalf of the executive power in this most extraordinary paper.
• Lander was induced by false pretences to bring the baggage from Kano to Sockatoo, when forcible possession was taken of the muskets.
• The failing was infectious, and the gathering having, as you can easily understand, talked itself weary, dispersed on trivial pretences.
• Unluckily, the exercise of the sublime art is only too often used as a method of obtaining money under false pretences, and for the following reasons.
• I think I may assert, without the least partiality, that it is a treatise wholly devoid of wit or learning, under the most violent and weak endeavours and pretences to both.
• With these pretences they brought us back in triumph, and the queen-mother, being by this time grown something familiar to them, they carried us before her.
• And here let me say, that I read up the law of false pretences long ago.
• You obtained my veneration on false pretences, and you have lost it for ever.
• She was quite herself again, and she hoped Sylvia would not feel she had been summoned on false pretences.
• I had not been suffered to accompany them, on many pleas and pretences, as I had wished to do, and this was the end of it all.
• Then farewell the Good Act of Parliament, which makes it Treason to Levy Arms against the present King, upon any pretences whatsoever.

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