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Synonyms for pretext
ˈpri tɛkstpre·text
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pretext
A pretense, in the unfavorable, which is also the usual sense, is something advanced or displayed for the purpose of concealing the reality. A person makes a pretense of something for the credit or advantage to be gained by it; he makes what is allowed or approved a pretext for doing what would be opposed or condemned; a tricky schoolboy makes a pretense of doing an errand which he does not do, or he makes the actual doing of an errand a pretext for playing truant. A ruse is something (especially something slight or petty) employed to blind or deceive so as to mask an ulterior design, and enable a person to gain some end that he would not be allowed to approach directly. A pretension is a claim that is or may be contested; the word is now commonly used in an unfavorable sense. Compare ARTIFICE; HYPOCRISY.
Synonyms:
affectation, air, assumption, cloak, color, disguise, dissimulation, excuse, mask, pretense, pretension, ruse, seeming, semblance, show, simulation, subterfuge, trick, wileAntonyms:
actuality, candor, fact, frankness, guilelessness, honesty, ingenuousness, openness, reality, simplicity, sincerity, truth
Princeton's WordNet
pretext, stalking-horsenoun
something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason
Synonyms:
pretence, guise, stalking-horse, pretenseguise, pretense, pretence, pretextnoun
an artful or simulated semblance
"under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"
Synonyms:
pretending, pretence, simulation, pretense, pretension, feigning, guise, make-believe, stalking-horse, dissembling
Dictionary of English Synonymes
pretextnoun
Synonyms:
show (to conceal a thing done), appearance, affectation, simulation, mask, color, PRETENCE
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#268 | show | |
#478 | air | |
#696 | color | |
#4317 | simulation | |
#5519 | mask | |
#7150 | assumption | |
#7167 | trick | |
#8557 | excuse | |
#21091 | disguise | |
#21182 | cloak | |
#22910 | pretending | |
#27184 | seeming | |
#30656 | guise | |
#35820 | pretext | |
#42023 | alibi | |
#43818 | ruse | |
#47547 | semblance | |
#48205 | pretense | |
#63007 | wile | |
#63572 | pretence | |
#79016 | subterfuge | |
#87946 | affectation | |
#88030 | pretension | |
#88249 | blag | |
#105408 | feigning | |
#169441 | dissembling | |
#176365 | dissimulation |
How to use pretext in a sentence?
The time has come for the European Union to take action. Silence and inaction under whatever pretext will only embolden the mullahs’ regime to continue its crimes and terrorism.
National security has often been used as a pretext specifically against Asian-Americans.
Virtually every significant agency action is vulnerable to the kinds of allegations the Court credits today, it is not difficult for political opponents of executive actions to generate controversy with accusations of pretext, deceit, and illicit motives.
The only (purpose) ... is to subject the former President to public embarrassment, it is not Lula's credibility that is compromised when its leaders turn to a political target in the most fragile pretext.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko:
On May 8, for the first time, the people of Ukraine will join the European tradition to commemorate the victims of World War Two, the very next day in Moscow, under the pretext of the Great Victory, the aggressor's army will brandish its lethal might in front of the world. Some of the units were in Donetsk a few days ago and soon they will appear on the military parade in Moscow.
Translations for pretext
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- záminkaCzech
- påskudDanish
- einen Vorwand verwenden, Vorwand, Deckmantel, fadenscheinige Begründung, etwas vorgeben, etwas vorschützenGerman
- pretextoSpanish
- بهانه، مستمسکPersian
- veruke, tekosyyFinnish
- prétexteFrench
- leithscéalIrish
- leisgeulScottish Gaelic
- אמתלהHebrew
- बहानाHindi
- ürügy, kifogásHungarian
- yfirskinIcelandic
- scusante, pretestoItalian
- takunetanga, takutakunga, takungaMāori
- påskuddNorwegian
- schijnreden, pretext, dekmantel, drogreden, voorwendselDutch
- påskottNorwegian Nynorsk
- pretekst, wymówkaPolish
- pretextoPortuguese
- по́вод, предло́гRussian
- izlika, izgovorSerbo-Croatian
- undanflykt, svepskäl, förevändningSwedish
- بہانہUrdu
- טערעץYiddish
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