Synonyms for pretenses
pre·tens·es

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1. List of paraphrases for "pretenses":

   pretexts, pretences

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1. The FBI:

   Defendants case is not an isolated one, but instead appears to be part of a program conducted by the PLAand specifically, FMMU or associated institutionsto send military scientists to the United States on false pretenses with false covers or false statements about their true employment.

2. Dawn Laguens:

   It is a profoundly offensive violation of privacy and dignity that anti-abortion extremists entered our laboratory under false pretenses and are now broadcasting video of a part of the process for a safe abortion, publicizing secret video footage of a woman's abortion process is a grossly offensive act that should be rejected by all regardless of political perspective.

3. Federal Communications Commission:

   We are making it clear that scamming consumers and — as we saw in this case — tricking them into buying products under false pretenses can not and will not go unchecked, that is why the Federal Communications Commission and state officials are standing together and taking strong action to protect the American public from the scourge of spoofed robocalls.

4. Dean Koontz:

   Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.

5. Daniel Knighton/Getty Images:

   If I think its funny, if my audience will thinkits funny, then Illdo the joke, you know? ive always run underthe pretenses of if you dont like the comedian andyou dont think that hes funny then dont go to his show, dont buy his stuff -- thats how it works.