The nuances, exaggerations and pretences of conversation can be taken literally. |
|
Fights were sometimes orchestrated under false pretences, so that inmates could swipe and pilfer a target person's store items. |
|
If his case doesn't justify asylum, then there are millions of undeserving asylum seekers living here under false pretences. |
|
The charges put to the accused yesterday include the falsification of accounts, acquiring money under false pretences and failing to keep records. |
|
In July, 1968, he appeared in court for bigamy, larceny and false pretences, with 116 offences considered, and was sentenced to two years jail, suspended for three years. |
|
While I'm pleased about that, I now realise that it was wrong to lure them here under false pretences by losing my temper and shouting the odds all over the place. |
|
But Baptists would readminister the rite to every one who had received it on false pretences, or to whom it had been involuntarily administered. |
|
All pretences to the contrary are nothing but cant and cheat, flam and delusion. |
|
In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good. |
|