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Noun
A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason
A deceptive or insincere outward appearance
(
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
False claim, assertion of importance
Verb
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
excuse
pretence
UK
ploy
ruse
cover
device
grounds
pretense
US
alibi
simulation
stratagem
subterfuge
con
feint
routine
stall
cop-out
cover story
cover-up
ostensible reason
red herring
supposed grounds
alleged reason
false excuse
fig leaf
song and dance
deception
trick
wile
artifice
facade
façade
blind
sham
manoeuvre
UK
scheme
hoax
machination
disguise
masquerade
mask
smokescreen
front
maneuver
US
dodge
deceit
cloak
camouflage
expedient
put-on
contrivance
guise
shift
false front
screen
fraud
lie
bluff
cheat
wheeze
lurk
flimflam
tactic
charade
semblance
scam
veil
sleight
gambit
play
game
fake
plan
imposture
veneer
gimmick
misrepresentation
plot
fetch
grift
smoke screen
falsehood
trickery
put-up job
smoke and mirrors
act
show
stunt
evasion
intrigue
fakery
racket
move
swindle
faking
feigning
imitation
canard
set-up
trap
knack
jig
shenanigan
bunco
humbug
juggle
snare
make-believe
rort
flanker
fastie
curtain
con trick
jive
method
whitewash
snow job
window-dressing
concealment
airs
pose
playacting
hoodwinking
pretension
bait
bluster
distraction
delusion
-gate
suppression
shuffling
double-dealing
posing
ostentation
insincerity
gag
posturing
fabrication
acting
display
appearance
falsification
dissimulation
misstatement
schtick
invention
duck
setup
scenario
action
brainchild
angle
twist
gamesmanship
bravado
bombast
bragging
masking
scene
bit
mock attack
false show
codology
idle boast
kidology
extenuation
conspiracy
decoy
leg-pull
sting
booby trap
game plan
course of action
line of action
one-upmanship
bait and switch
sleight of hand
little game
disguising
closeting
hokum
confidence trick
porky
gyp
false colors
boast
braggadocio
jiving
snow
mere show
smoke-screen
Trojan horse
schlenter
rig
wangle
loophole
false pretense
dumb act
hogwash
bilk
fast shuffle
mare's-nest
hustle
con game
fallacy
confidence game
wrinkle
story
ride
fast one
catch
pork pie
chicane
shuck
malarkey
illusion
crock
fib
forgery
strategy
phoniness
dissembling
burlesque
counterfeit
sell
spoof
fiction
smoke
play-acting
caper
duplicity
deviousness
refuge
more ❯
“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
guise
show
veil
cloak
mask
appearance
semblance
masquerade
cover
pose
smokescreen
veneer
camouflage
charade
affectation
face
front
pretense
US
façade
pretence
UK
facade
disguise
false show
put-on
false front
screen
colour
UK
airs
color
US
outward appearance
playacting
excuse
shroud
mantle
blind
hood
act
display
posturing
claim
artifice
layer
wraps
cover-up
ruse
false appearance
beard
false display
shield
posture
covering
blanket
pall
cope
coverture
penumbra
curtain
illusion
pretension
air
schtick
feigning
false pretense
impersonation
suggestion
sham
effect
smoke screen
smoke and mirrors
concealment
envelope
name
likeness
impression
image
simulation
falsehood
profession
hoax
trickery
con
falsification
simulacrum
make-believe
fakery
imitation
dumb act
showing
posing
light
role
demeanor
US
demeanour
UK
snivel
hokum
travesty
parody
pretentiousness
garb
wile
false colors
coloring
US
fake
window dressing
look
exterior
phoney
UK
disguisement
window-dressing
gloss
phony
US
frontage
colouring
UK
bluff
robe
false colours
put-up job
shawl
wrap
more ❯
“The mugging was merely the
pretext
for heavy-duty flirting between a dishy detective and Keelin, the lovelorn physiotherapist.”
Noun
▲
(
used with for
)
A reason for a particular feeling or emotion
cause
reason
basis
call
stimulus
need
grounds
justification
occasion
provocation
consideration
necessity
ground
excuse
motive
motivation
rationale
inducement
foundation
purpose
explanation
argument
warrant
premise
antecedent
account
wherefore
why
incentive
causation
causality
defence
UK
defense
US
right
underpinning
subject
authority
base
rationalization
US
footing
groundwork
factor
bedrock
rationalisation
UK
requirement
influence
prompting
obligation
determinant
extenuation
mitigation
claim
mitigating circumstances
keystone
warp
root
cornerstone
bottom
pretence
UK
pretense
US
pretension
warp and woof
case
goal
intention
aim
impetus
objective
point
apology
vindication
apologia
design
end
target
accounting
object
exposition
source
genesis
driver
origin
inspiration
instigation
story
driving force
chief ingredient
why and wherefore
whys and wherefores
principal element
causal agent
evidence
whyfor
incitement
stimulation
hidden agenda
spur
impulse
intent
persuasion
thinking
drive
mainspring
motivating force
ax to grind
agenda
score to settle
fountain
fount
incitation
beginning
generator
stimulator
lure
goad
pressure
emotion
spring
passion
feeling
chief reason
chief motive
impelling cause
secret plan
prime mover
motive force
ambition
catalyst
interest
the why and wherefore
focus
hope
concern
stimulant
desire
enticement
carrot
determination
resolve
wish
ideal
dream
aspiration
preoccupation
resolution
mission
care
vision
plan
prejudice
parti pris
ulterior motive
end game
holy grail
hidden motive
Holy Grail
object of desire
special interest
reason why
vested interest
more ❯
Noun
▲
A fabricated story or statement, especially one intended to deceive
untruth
fabrication
falsehood
lie
fib
fiction
prevarication
story
falsity
whopper
deception
fable
falsification
invention
exaggeration
half-truth
fake news
made-up story
myth
rumor
US
rumour
UK
tale
trumped-up story
yarn
barefaced lie
disinformation
misinformation
perjury
porky
pretense
US
pretence
UK
ruse
sham
stratagem
trickery
white lie
wile
alternative fact
deceit
dissimulation
fairy tale
gossip
little white lie
mendacity
piece of fiction
propaganda
red herring
taradiddle
tarradiddle
bulldust
cock and bull story
flight of fancy
canard
departure from the truth
distortion
fairy story
figment of the imagination
misrepresentation
tall story
tall tale
pork pie
porky pie
terminological inexactitude
economy with the truth
conspiracy theory
concoction
line
figment
forgery
hyperbole
hogwash
song and dance
remarkable story
big lie
dishonesty
bunk
crock
inaccuracy
fake
guile
subterfuge
misstatement
fantasy
phantasy
fraudulence
falseness
patter
claptrap
evasion
backbiting
detraction
opus
artifact
US
jive
work
artefact
UK
jazz
smoke
pitch
spiel
one for the birds
lead
talk
cock-and-bull story
persuasion
prepared speech
untruism
fish story
shaggy-dog story
fancy
narrative
anecdote
urban myth
rigmarole
potboiler
imagination
urban legend
excuse
short story
clothesline
illusion
lies
kidology
untruthfulness
equivocation
spinach
evasiveness
pishogue
nancy story
whisper
false statement
scandal
chestnut
defamation
fibbery
cover-up
half truth
fraud
false report
feigning
fakery
delusion
folk ballad
apologue
false notion
misbelief
fallacy
creation
mistaken belief
superstition
hallucination
error
misconception
fictitious story
sea story
reminiscence
song
novelette
joke
report
saga
history
adventure
novella
parable
prose
alibi
sketch
account
romance
storytelling
legend
improvisation
hooey
work of fiction
short stories
made up story
unrealism
best seller
nonfiction
literature
creative writing
fibs
novel
figment of imagination
works of fiction
creativity
book
nonsense
work of imagination
drama
cliff-hanger
narration
more ❯
Noun
▲
The action of evading something
evasion
avoidance
dodging
elusion
shunning
circumvention
ducking
eluding
escape
shirking
cop-out
cunning
deception
fudging
shuffling
artifice
bypassing
equivocation
eschewal
eschewing
out
prevarication
ruse
shaking
sidestepping
subterfuge
trickery
bilking
evasiveness
go-by
obliqueness
sophism
sophistry
ditch
dodge
equivocating
evading
excuse
fugiviteness
fugivity
jive
lie
quibble
routine
run-around
shift
skirting
slip
stall
stonewall
stonewalling
trick
getting out of
fancy footwork
finding a way round
refraining
delay
escaping
abstention
escapism
refrainment
holding off
hedging
bypass
circumventing
come-off
difficulty
detour
diversion
postponement
inertia
roundabout
absention
recoil
nonparticipation
prevention
preventing
restraint
retreat
departure
self-restraint
forbearance
flight
recession
anticipation
parry
keeping away
steering clear
body swerve
passive resistance
steering clear of
more ❯
Noun
▲
An excuse or pretext
alibi
reason
excuse
justification
plea
defence
UK
explanation
apology
defense
US
vindication
line
story
account
affirmation
allegation
answer
assertion
assurance
avowal
case
cop-out
cover
declaration
defending evidence
profession
proof
reply
retort
stall
statement
airtight case
fish story
song and dance
argument
rationalization
US
rationalisation
UK
extenuation
mitigation
apologia
grounds
basis
cause
palliation
rationale
reasoning
premise
pretence
UK
expedient
evasion
front
subterfuge
whitewash
fabrication
cover-up
pretense
US
why and wherefore
ostensible reason
wherefore
validation
foundation
coverup
routine
disguise
cover story
get-out
mitigating circumstances
escape
apologism
apologetics
apologetic
way around
dodge
claim
motive
authority
motivation
why
point
factor
underpinning
action
suit
out
right
evidence
subject
accounting
sake
footing
warrant
fish tale
absolution
exculpation
exoneration
approval
palliative
advocacy
whitewashing
support
acquittal
whatfor
just cause
whole idea
raison d'être
more ❯
Noun
▲
Offense of false representation
false pretense
false colors
false pretension
feign
hollow pretense
pretension
Noun
▲
An ambiguity or inadequacy in the law or a set of rules
loophole
ambiguity
let-out
avoidance
crack
defect
discrepancy
dodge
escape
escape clause
evasion
excuse
fault
flaw
inadequacy
inconsistency
omission
plea
pretense
US
pretence
UK
shortcoming
slip
subterfuge
alternative
escape route
get-out
means of avoidance
means of evasion
out
outlet
technicality
workaround
let-out clause
means of escape
way out
opening
weakness
weak point
gap
window
door
hack
bypass
circumvention
sidestep
error
failing
egress
exit
fallacy
limitation
imperfection
lack
mistake
shortage
hole
Achilles heel
more ❯
Noun
▲
False claim, assertion of importance
pretension
allegation
ambition
ambitiousness
aspiration
assumption
charade
declaration
demand
disguise
maintenance
make-believe
pageant
pretence
UK
pretense
US
profession
title
Verb
▲
To employ a pretext for soliciting the gain of something else
blag
“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
excuse
defend
justify
rationalise
UK
rationalize
US
vindicate
explain
mitigate
warrant
sanction
whitewash
alibi
appease
clear
cover
explain away
make a case for
provide a justification for
provide an explanation for
extenuate
palliate
deodorize
US
make excuses for
gloss over
deodorise
UK
gloze over
account for
give an explanation for
minimize
US
lessen
elucidate
downplay
resolve
minimise
UK
support
attribute
clear up
play down
make acceptable
make allowances for
give reasons for
give an apologia for
provide a rationale for
illuminate
answer for
give an explanation
hide
conceal
cloak
show grounds for
disguise
camouflage
mask
varnish
airbrush
come up with an explanation
exonerate
paper over
varnish over
cover up
tone down
argue for
speak for
make light of
plead for
paper over the cracks
legitimize
US
give the rationale behind
speak on behalf of
speak in support of
legitimise
UK
corroborate
vindicate oneself
exculpate oneself
acquit oneself
clear the air about
exonerate oneself
absolve oneself
throw light on
throw light upon
give an excuse for
give an alibi for
shed light on
give a reason for
give a justification for
give a rationale for
answer to
reason
excise
intellectualise
UK
think
reconcile
intellectualize
US
deliberate
moderate
qualify
reduce
soften
diminish
cop out
apply logic
make allowance
reason out
apply logic to
give alibi
temper
weaken
decrease
think through
cop a plea
give good reason for
make allowances
come up with an explanation for
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