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A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason

A deceptive or insincere outward appearance

An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or is going to do something

An excuse or pretext to avoid a commitment or responsibility

A cunning trick or dishonest act, in particular one intended to avoid something unpleasant

(used with for) A reason for a particular feeling or emotion

A fabricated story or statement, especially one intended to deceive

The action of evading something

An excuse or pretext

Offense of false representation

An ambiguity or inadequacy in the law or a set of rules

To employ a pretext for soliciting the gain of something else

To provide an acceptable explanation for

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Noun

A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason

ostensible reason

supposed grounds

“It merely serves as a pretext to whip the country into a war frenzy and to justify the insertion of large numbers of troops.”

Noun

A deceptive or insincere outward appearance

smoke and mirrors

outward appearance

window-dressing

false appearance

misrepresentation

window dressing

pretentiousness

outward display

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“The mugging was merely the pretext for heavy-duty flirting between a dishy detective and Keelin, the lovelorn physiotherapist.”

Noun

An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or is going to do something

window dressing

window-dressing

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Noun

An excuse or pretext to avoid a commitment or responsibility

rationalisation^UK

rationalization^US

mitigating circumstances

ostensible reason

why and wherefore

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Noun

A cunning trick or dishonest act, in particular one intended to avoid something unpleasant

sleight of hand

course of action

bait and switch

misrepresentation

confidence trick

confidence game

monkey business

sanctimoniousness

oldest trick in the book

crocodile tears

hypocritical talk

hypocritical behaviour

smoke and mirrors

underhandedness

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Noun

(used with for) A reason for a particular feeling or emotion

rationalization^US

rationalisation^UK

mitigating circumstances

chief ingredient

why and wherefore

whys and wherefores

principal element

shot in the arm

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Noun

A fabricated story or statement, especially one intended to deceive

trumped-up story

alternative fact

little white lie

piece of fiction

cock and bull story

flight of fancy

departure from the truth

figment of the imagination

misrepresentation

terminological inexactitude

economy with the truth

conspiracy theory

lack of veracity

remarkable story

prepared speech

one for the birds

cock-and-bull story

deviation from the truth

disregard for the facts

shaggy-dog story

creation of the brain

castle in the air

disingenuousness

imaginativeness

figment of imagination

visualization^US

visualisation^UK

castle in Spain

fool's paradise

imaginative faculty

false statement

phantom of the mind

creature of the imagination

misinterpretation

misunderstanding

double-crossing

telling stories

creative thought

mistaken belief

fictitious story

will-o'-the-wisp

false information

virtual reality

creative writing

bending of the truth

work of fiction

works of fiction

misleading information

pretentiousness

work of imagination

power of invention

wishful thinking

cloud cuckoo land

product of someone's imagination

fanciful notion

flight of imagination

traveller's tale

imaginative power

fraudulent imitation

fraudulent copying

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Noun

The action of evading something

Noun

An excuse or pretext

defending evidence

rationalization^US

rationalisation^UK

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Noun

Offense of false representation

false pretension

hollow pretense

Noun

An ambiguity or inadequacy in the law or a set of rules

Verb

To employ a pretext for soliciting the gain of something else

“Witherow also admitted that his paper tried to pretext details of Brown's mortgage by calling the bank and posing as the former prime minister.”

Verb

To provide an acceptable explanation for

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