Pretext is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PRETEXT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to allege as an excuse
• get personal information under false pretences
NOUN:
• an ostensible motive or reason, put forward as an excuse or to conceal the true one
• a reason given in justification of a course of action that is not the real reason
• false reason given to hide the real one
• Ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color or cover for the real reason or motive; pretense; disguise.
• something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason
• an artful or simulated semblance

Words related to PRETEXT

pretexted19 pretexting20 pretexts17

Words that contain PRETEXT

pretexts17 pretexted19 pretexting20 pretextings21

How to use PRETEXT in a sentence

• The Dutch sailors had even the temerity, under pretext of pursuing pirates, to violate the British territory.
• He forthwith collected an immense army, and sent him again to effect the conquest of Iran, under the pretext of avenging the death of Silim and Tur.
• He had made his way, thanks to women, whose society he sought under pretext of studying them, but whom he was resolved to use as instruments of fortune.
• As for Marcius, the pretext which he gave for not assisting Lucullus was that his soldiers refused to follow him.
• Negotiations for peace with the Turks became the pretext for war-indemnities.
• When we are reminded that we ought to be united to our Head, it seems to us a fine pretext for exemption to say that we are men.
• He was just as anxious for an excuse to attack Prussia as Bismarck was for a pretext to attack him.
• He gets his board for nothing at the hotels for waiting on his master, and on the pretext that he induced him to come there.
• The priests postponed negotiations on the pretext that it was necessary to consult Peking, and promised to send a mission to Calcutta within six months, but never have done so.
• We certainly gave him no pretext for refusing to pay us what he promised.
• She had become a necessity to his heart, his only pretext, his only excuse, for living.
• This afforded Matthias an honorable pretext for abandoning his warlike plan, and the truce was agreed to.
• Besides, there is no authority to levy that money, for your Majesty has not assigned it, nor is the governor able to do it, although he give your Majesty a pretext for it.
• At its close Felicite called her son to her room under some pretext or other, and Joyselle and Brigit went alone to his study.
• Your pretext of a political mission is, of course, an absurd one, but fortunately you have fallen into good hands.
• Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it.
• It is hardly probable that many dissenters threw away the chance of such promotion on any frivolous pretext of religion.
• Every day after this little adventure, on one pretext or another, she managed to encounter him.
• On some trivial pretext this was refused him, his cattle were seized, and himself and his wives and children forcibly retained in the service of the Boer.
• Hiero had concluded peace with the Mamertines through the mediation of the Carthaginians, so that there was no longer even a pretext for the interference of the Romans.
• The question, therefore, regarding the new boundaries of the kingdom, and the separation of Candia from its territory, formed a ready pretext for his rejection of the offer.
• It is evident, therefore, that the present treatment of the Jews is really not dictated by the native Russian population, and that the democratic argument is but a false pretext.
• Thrice since leaving Ogden, on one pretext or other, had he passed her section and stolen such a look as could be given without obvious staring.
• On every pretext masters and pupils threw the name in his teeth, either in irony or in reproof.
• In the former, however mythological be the subject, it is generally chosen but to afford a decent pretext for the generous display of beauty unveiled.
• These all marched to Lecompton, where they held themselves in readiness to act, as soon as a pretext could be found invoking their help.
• Nor would it be less absurd to lay a ban on erudition, on the pretext that our learned men often give themselves up to matters of trivial import.
• If he refused to eat the flesh of his own son he was to be accused of contempt for the King, and there would thus be a pretext for having him executed.
• The fact can no longer be disguised that many of the Republican leaders desire war and disunion under pretext of saving the Union.

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