Pretenses is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PRETENSES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• PRETENSE, the act of pretending, also PRETENCE
• pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
• a false show of something: a pretense of friendship.
• a piece of make-believe.
• the act of pretending or alleging falsely.
• a false allegation or justification: He excused himself from the lunch on a pretense of urgent business.
• insincere or false profession: His pious words were mere pretense.
• the putting forth of an unwarranted claim.
• the claim itself.
• any allegation or claim: to obtain money under false pretenses.
• pretension (usually followed by to): destitute of any pretense to wit.
• pretentiousness.

Words related to PRETENSES

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How to use PRETENSES in a sentence

• The horse that is caught once by false pretenses will not be long in finding out the trick.
• They would each choose to have some counterpoise, and pretenses could easily be contrived.
• Projects of usurpation cannot be masked under pretenses so likely to escape the penetration of select bodies of men, as of the people at large.
• He said he was happy that they liked the play, but that he was making the speech under false pretenses.
• It is a sad illustration of the ignorance of the Russian people as a whole, that such a man could have gotten so great a power on such flimsy pretenses.
• However it might seem to those evidently greatly struck with her extraordinary good luck, her triumph was in reality only the most pitiful of pretenses.
• Councils had been held on various pretenses, while the real motives were concealed.
• From all quarters, and under all kinds of pretenses, streams of money were steadily flowing into Italy.
• Thus and with other schemes, although certain new pretenses are alleged, and with absolute power, does the governor act just as he pleases.
• These aborigines belonged to the ancient Canaanitish tribes, and were so astute as to impose even upon Joshua, and to obtain from him a treaty on false pretenses.
• He saw that the smugglers had concluded to throw off the mask and make no further pretenses.
• Under various pretenses I am questioned about what I have suffered in the past, and what plans of life I have formed for the future.
• Various extravagant pretenses have from time to time been raised up by the South, and urged as causes for dissolving the Union.
• In those days, I knew nothing of the false pretenses under which men hide what is selfish and savage in their natures from the women whom it is their interest to deceive.
• The elections were either pretenses or held under threats of shooting or starvation.
• But no! It is, I believe, a misdemeanor to obtain attention under false pretenses.
• And he who can resist the pretenses of infidelity and remain pure amid the general waste of faith, has moral power enough to attest his love of truth by dying in its behalf.
• Had I any right to complain? Was I in earnest? Was I spontaneous? We were making love to each other under false pretenses.
• But he concluded him to be much worse, and deserving of far heavier punishment, as a man that would have obtained his daughter under false pretenses.
• He did not get to town at the appointed time, and he was arrested and carried before a justice of the peace, who found him guilty of obtaining money under false pretenses.
• I fear the gentle reader, how much more the savage one, will accuse me of having beguiled him with false pretenses.
• He felt that he was really meeting them under false pretenses.
• He absolved her of all evil intent, of any desire to obtain anything under false pretenses.
• It seems, therefore, that I have brought you here under false pretenses.
• Christ put the accent on the things that are worthy and banished the shallow pretenses upon which so much time is wasted and so much money squandered.
• The right of suffrage has often been assumed and exercised by aliens under pretenses of naturalization, which they have disavowed when drafted into the military service.
• Yet you still accepted what I had to offer, under a false name, under false pretenses.
• Oroonoko made his way down to the seashore, and was there allured, under false pretenses of hospitality, on board an English ship.

Similar words containing TENSE without suffix s and without prefix pre

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