Pretexts is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PRETEXTS in dictionary:

VERB:
• PRETEXT, to allege as an excuse
NOUN:
• a reason given in justification of a course of action that is not the real reason

Words related to PRETEXTS

pretext16 pretexted19 pretexting20

How to use PRETEXTS in a sentence

• Mobs frequently took a hand in the proceedings, and several men were attacked and arrested on very flimsy pretexts.
• He sought for various pretexts to send Veronica away, but the woman too discovered excellent reasons for not going out.
• Antony, instead of putting Octavius into possession of his property and rights, found various pretexts for evasion and delay.
• With an unsettled frontier, and between neighbors of whom one is ambitious and the other barbarian, pretexts and even causes are never wanting.
• But it was Cyrus, as you know, who invented many and divers pretexts, that he might take you off your guard, and transport us hither.
• I feel sure that these pretexts will never deceive or control world opinion.
• The people will think that we are perpetually seeking pretexts for war in order to get new territories, and the general or universal impression will be dangerous.
• Spain, France, Germany, with their Swiss auxiliaries, had been summoned upon various pretexts to partake of the rich prey she offered.
• What trifling pretexts were made use of by Domitian to put to death some of the most illustrious Romans? 10.
• Some of the French guards were soon arrested under other pretexts, but in reality, on account of their dispositions in favor of the national cause.
• Some of the French guards were soon arrested, under other pretexts, but really on account of their dispositions in favor of the national cause.
• When therefore the separation took place, which was done, let us here say, on good terms, and under fair and honorable pretexts, Mademoiselle Thuillier breathed more freely.
• Light pretexts drew them back to their wonted haunts.
• It was only a quarter to eleven when they began to distribute pretexts.
• Rome and Naples were plundered on base pretexts, and the latter was obliged to let the French occupy a part of its territories and ports.
• I must congratulate my friends here upon the astounding ingenuity which they show in discovering pretexts to avoid military service.
• When Marie was ready she made various pretexts to follow her.
• Thinking therefore that the state was becoming languid through quiet, he every where sought for pretexts for stirring up war.
• Don Martin was for him only a servant in a cassock, and he made him come up to the cloister nearly every evening on various pretexts.
• Meanwhile the English officials who, on various pretexts of reform, had taken charge of the barracks and the customs in Monrovia, were carrying things with a high hand.
• Negroes were arrested on the slightest pretexts and their labor as that of convicts leased to landowners or other business men.
• It is true that this difficulty would have been diminished in the case of an all-powerful Minister, who had constant pretexts for seeing her in private.
• Gonzalo endeavoured to secure the troops in his interest, covering his designs and endeavouring to justify his criminal enterprize by the most specious pretexts.
• The inclinations of those numerous tribes lead them invariably to war whenever pretexts exist.
• Several large manufactories of beet root were established, some of which only served as pretexts for selling smuggled colonial sugar as the produce of their own works.
• The Republics could then be annexed under cover of these plausible pretexts.
• The pretexts are always found in some specious appearance of a real good.
• Seldom have two ages the same fashion in their pretexts, and the same modes of mischief.
• The opportunities and plausible pretexts for misunderstandings, quarrels and war were many.
• He had allowed judgment to be delayed on various pretexts, because until that time delay had answered his purposes sufficiently.

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