"pretextual" meaning in English

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          "word": "pretextual arrest"
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          "ref": "2019, Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers:",
          "text": "\"If you're accused of profiling or pretextual stops, you can bring your daily logbook to court and document that pulling over motorists for 'stickler' reasons is part of your customary pattern,\" Remsberg writes, \"not a glaring exception conveniently dusted off in the defendant's case.\"",
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        "Having a false, contrived or assumed purpose; characterized by pretense."
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        {
          "word": "pretextuous"
        }
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          "text": "They maintained that while historical critics sought to get behind the text to its pretextual and early textual origins (a “diachronic” approach), literary critics concentrated on the final product, the text as it now stands (a “synchronic” approach).",
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