See pretext in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "The reporter called the company on the pretext of trying to resolve a consumer complaint.",
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"ref": "1598, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 21:",
"text": "[T]hey would ſay [...] that I had quarrell'd / My brother purpoſely, thereby to finde / An apt pretext, to baniſh them my houſe.",
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"ref": "1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 69:",
"text": "\"After all,\" said the Chevalier, \"these portraits—Madame de I'Hôpital's fortune-telling—the pleasure we take in a lover or a physician—may all be referred to the same cause,—we do so enjoy talking about ourselves; and yet we feel some sort of excuse necessary. It must be admitted, that we are ready in pretexts.\"",
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"ref": "1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:",
"text": "On every kind of pretext she would run away from work [...]",
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"ref": "1996, Jacques Gernet, translated by J. R. Foster and Charles Hartman, A History of Chinese Civilization, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 580:",
"text": "The smallest incidents were to serve as pretexts for demonstrations of force and for demands for indemnities and reparations which increased China's subjection.",
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"ref": "2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “The Simpsons (Classic): ‘New Kid on the Block’ [season 4, episode 8; originally aired 12 November 1992]”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2020-09-18:",
"text": "When that metaphor proves untenable, he switches to insisting that women are like beer but that’s mainly as a pretext to drink until he passes out in a father-son bonding haze.",
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "sv",
"english": "dubious justification",
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"ref": "1903, Henry James, The Ambassadors:",
"text": "[…] the something in the air of these establishments; the vibration of the vast, strange life of the town; the influence of the types, the performers, concocting their messages; the little prompt Paris women arranging, pretexting goodness knew what, driving the dreadful needle-pointed public pen at the dreadful sand-strewn public table[…]",
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"ref": "1970 August 12 [1969 January 15], John Womack, Jr., Zapata and the Mexican Revolution, New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 261:",
"text": "Not all the surviving veteran chiefs would actually fight. Some remained nominally in the resistance but in practice delayed at their bases, pretexting a lack of ammunition for their uncertain inertia.",
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "employ a pretext",
"word": "preteksti"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "employ a pretext",
"word": "etwas vorgeben"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "employ a pretext",
"word": "einen Vorwand verwenden"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "employ a pretext",
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"sense": "employ a pretext",
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"sense": "employ a pretext",
"word": "so tun, als ob"
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"sense": "employ a pretext",
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "employ a pretext",
"word": "whakataruna"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "employ a pretext",
"word": "pretextar"
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "employ a pretext",
"word": "mượn cớ"
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