Synonyms

1. pretence
2. guise
3. pretense

Sentence Examples

1. You went into his service the day he came away and he came away on a foolish pretext, without trunks, and carrying a large amount in banknotes.
2. Then he bowed again and stepped backwards for several feet before turning on his heel and heading back through the forest on the pretext of finding more wood.
3. I ring off on the pretext of running late, which is more or less the case.
4. under pretext of trading along the coast, these men, who are in reality smugglers, will prefer selling me to doing a good action.
5. The mysterious habits of Phileas Fogg were recalled his solitary ways, his sudden departure and it seemed clear that, in undertaking a tour round the world on the pretext of a wager, he had had no other end in view than to elude the detectives, and throw them off his track.
6. All I need is a pretext for visiting Waterstone the first time, which I now have, however flimsy.
7. Robert le Diable The pretext of an opera engagement was so much the more feasible, as there chanced to be on that very night a more than ordinary attraction at the Académie Royale.
8. Waterstone was uncharacteristically quiet all evening and excused himself early, on the pretext of putting Sparrow to bed.
9. I rode out with him and Robert, the pretext I cannot remember.
10. Oh, and speaking of money, Woody, I had one of the kids send emails to several US flight schools on the pretext he was inquiring for some Arab students studying in Hamburg.