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A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason

A deceptive or insincere outward appearance

A cunning trick or dishonest act with the intent to deceive

A fabricated story or statement, especially one intended to deceive

An excuse or pretext to avoid a commitment or responsibility

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

The action of evading something

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

A cunning trick or dishonest act with the intent to deceive

misrepresentation

confidence trick

confidence game

course of action

bait and switch

sleight of hand

monkey business

underhandedness

smoke and mirrors

unscrupulousness

palace intrigue

oldest trick in the book

specious reasoning

artful argument

standard procedure

publicity device

eye-catching novelty

surreptitiousness

double-crossing

instrumentality

misleading talk

vision statement

mission statement

treacherousness

every trick in the book

proposed action

guiding principle

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Noun

A fabricated story or statement, especially one intended to deceive

misrepresentation

trumped-up story

piece of fiction

alternative fact

little white lie

flight of fancy

terminological inexactitude

cock and bull story

departure from the truth

figment of the imagination

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

figment of imagination

castle in the air

imaginativeness

visualization^US

visualisation^UK

false statement

castle in Spain

fool's paradise

imaginative faculty

phantom of the mind

creature of the imagination

creative thought

false information

will-o'-the-wisp

mistaken belief

fictitious story

bending of the truth

virtual reality

misleading information

pretentiousness

power of invention

wishful thinking

cloud cuckoo land

product of someone's imagination

fanciful notion

flight of imagination

imaginative power

traveller's tale

fraudulent imitation

fraudulent copying

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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

mental gymnastics

defending evidence

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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

The action of evading something

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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