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pretexts
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Noun
The causes, explanations, or justifications for an action or event
Plural for a false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason
Plural for a deceptive or insincere outward appearance
Plural for a lie or falsehood, or the act of lying or concocting a falsehood
Plural for a reason or explanation given to justify a fault or offense
Plural for a pretense or stratagem
Plural for an ambiguity or inadequacy in a set of rules that can be potentially exploited
Verb
To employ a pretext for soliciting the gain of something else
To provide an acceptable explanation for
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▲
Noun
▲
The causes, explanations, or justifications for an action or event
reasons
explanations
causes
rationales
arguments
basis
justifications
motivations
motives
objectives
aims
drivers
excuses
grounds
impetus
incentives
premises
purposes
rationalisations
UK
rationalizations
US
underpinnings
wherefores
whys
details
genesis
inspirations
instigations
intentions
origins
ins and outs
causal agents
driving forces
principal elements
whys and wherefores
the full picture
defenses
US
defences
UK
apologies
explanation
alibis
pleas
occasions
goals
cases
baseis
impetuses
points
inducements
accounts
extenuations
cop-outs
covers
warrants
vindications
designs
targets
ends
apologias
objects
antecedents
authorities
causalities
accountings
whies
causations
subjects
expositions
cover stories
geneses
sources
stories
US
stimuli
provocations
spurs
impulses
stimulants
boosts
catalysts
drives
persuasions
calls
needs
necessities
wellsprings
encouragements
incitements
considerations
momenta
yeasts
stimulations
determinants
influences
carrots and sticks
principles
excitements
requirements
foundations
counts
rights
obligations
promptings
scores
factors
urges
carrots
lures
baits
enticements
sweeteners
attractions
impulsions
goads
incitations
pushes
insistences
premia
allurements
exhortations
douceurs
springs
shots in the arm
temptations
come-ons
more ❯
Noun
▲
Plural for a false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason
excuse
pretence
UK
ploys
ruses
covers
devices
grounds
pretense
US
alibis
simulation
stratagems
subterfuge
cons
feints
routine
stalls
cop-outs
cover stories
cover-ups
red herrings
fig leaves
deception
tricks
artifice
schemes
manoeuvres
UK
hoaxes
machinations
maneuvers
US
blinds
facades
contrivances
dodges
flimflams
wiles
fraud
deceits
shams
lies
fronts
jives
shift
lurks
masks
gimmicks
fetches
screens
rorts
humbug
put-ons
smokescreens
traps
set-ups
fakes
put-up jobs
snow jobs
flankers
canards
masquerades
swindles
cloaks
disguises
impostures
expedients
cheats
con tricks
camouflage
wheezes
charades
buncos
scams
bluff
grifts
smoke screens
moves
play
gambits
juggles
plans
knacks
shenanigans
methods
jigs
tactics
sleights
loopholes
plots
strategy
wangles
counterfeits
phoninesses
spoofs
burlesque
delusions
dissemblings
forgery
fiction
act
snow
show
feignings
fakery
imitation
kidology
sells
smoke
codology
snares
rides
catch
chicanes
schlenters
confidence games
rigs
misrepresentation
Trojan horses
stings
shucks
mare's nests
hustles
bilks
game
leg-pulls
illusion
hokums
confidence tricks
con games
decoys
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
▲
Plural for a deceptive or insincere outward appearance
guises
show
veils
cloaks
masks
appearance
semblance
masquerades
covers
poses
smokescreens
veneers
camouflage
charades
affectations
faces
fronts
pretence
UK
pretense
US
facades
disguises
screens
put-ons
cover-ups
blinds
smoke screens
curtains
layers
hoods
mantles
shrouds
playacting
fig leaves
deception
copes
palls
covering
color
US
blankets
excuse
feints
shields
colour
UK
penumbras
covertures
impersonation
artifice
displays
act
effect
claims
ruses
feignings
air
illusion
shams
pretensions
schticks
suggestion
posturings
false pretenses
beards
concealment
envelopes
closetings
schemes
disguisings
maskings
demeanor
US
light
demeanour
UK
roles
posture
put-up jobs
names
simulation
falsehood
showings
cons
falsification
simulacrums
make-believe
professions
fakery
imitation
trickery
likenesses
hoaxes
robes
more ❯
“The mugging was merely the
pretext
for heavy-duty flirting between a dishy detective and Keelin, the lovelorn physiotherapist.”
Noun
▲
Plural for a lie or falsehood, or the act of lying or concocting a falsehood
fabrication
lies
falsehood
untruth
fibs
falsity
stories
fiction
prevarication
whoppers
falsification
mendacity
fables
deception
porkies
fantasy
tales
myths
taradiddles
tarradiddles
shams
pretence
UK
exaggeration
yarn
pretense
US
figments
deceits
concoction
ruses
bulldust
hogwash
phantasies
wiles
trickery
lines
rumor
US
rumour
UK
stratagems
jazz
forgery
smoke
fakes
artefacts
UK
artifacts
US
claptrap
jives
opuses
work
fairy tales
tall stories
half-truths
white lies
tall tales
flights of fancy
red herrings
barefaced lies
terminological inexactitudes
porky pies
pork pies
cock-and-bull stories
poetic license
US
poetic licence
UK
invention
alternative facts
dissimulation
dishonesty
subterfuge
fraudulence
misinformation
disinformation
misrepresentation
duplicity
fraud
artifice
perjuries
guises
hyperbole
distortion
dissemblings
treachery
fakery
deceitfulness
kidology
propaganda
hoaxes
hypocrisy
gossip
lyings
big lie
persuasion
bunks
crocks
guile
evasion
falseness
backbitings
detraction
inaccuracy
misstatements
canards
conspiracy theories
pretensions
charades
false pretenses
fish stories
untruisms
fancies
romance
shaggy-dog stories
overstatements
baloneys
overemphases
scandals
excess
aggrandizements
US
boastings
misjudgements
aggrandisements
UK
false reports
rants
misjudgment
fibbery
untruthfulness
excuse
equivocation
evasiveness
nancy stories
pishogues
whispers
quibblings
fibbings
yellow journalism
sensationalism
feignings
cover-ups
urban legends
urban myths
purple prose
improvisation
hooey
unrealism
imagination
creativity
illusion
nonsense
coloring
US
magnification
amplification
figures of speech
stretches
embroidery
caricatures
extravagance
enlargement
overestimations
emphasis
exaltation
hyperbolism
elaboration
colouring
UK
more ❯
Noun
▲
Plural for a reason or explanation given to justify a fault or offense
alibis
excuse
defence
UK
reason
justification
vindication
defense
US
explanation
apologies
pleas
stories
covers
cases
answers
accounts
lines
declarations
retorts
assertions
stalls
statements
allegations
proof
cop-outs
fish stories
argument
grounds
rationalization
US
rationalisation
UK
bases
mitigation
cause
extenuation
apologias
palliations
whys and wherefores
expedients
rationales
pretence
UK
pretense
US
motives
occasions
premises
motivations
calls
cover-ups
get-outs
foundations
whitewash
wherefores
fabrication
coverups
cover stories
subterfuge
warrants
provocation
whys
needs
ground
fronts
inducements
reasonings
rights
antecedents
evasion
routine
subjects
authority
disguises
necessity
purpose
factors
validation
suits
claims
stimuli
causation
underpinnings
causality
evidence
accounting
points
footings
incentives
whitewashings
exoneration
advocacy
absolutions
support
acquittal
exculpations
approval
palliatives
upholdings
mental gymnastics
pretensions
outs
determinants
obligations
influence
promptings
requirements
sake
apologetics
apologisms
objects
geneses
goals
intention
instigations
drivers
targets
impetuses
origins
exposition
sources
inspiration
design
ends
aims
driving forces
objectives
bedrock
groundwork
presumptions
consideration
contention
expostulation
pleadings
logic
theses
polemics
jives
returns
explainings
responses
endorsement
cleanup
testimony
copouts
excusings
explication
promotion
postulation
issues
demonstrations
questionings
dialectics
argumentation
qualifications
more ❯
Noun
▲
Plural for a pretense or stratagem
feints
bluff
artifice
ruses
play
ploys
stratagems
subterfuge
wiles
deception
expedients
gambits
manoeuvres
UK
tricks
bait
cheats
contrivances
deceits
devices
hoaxes
hoodwinkings
machinations
maneuvers
US
pretence
UK
pretense
US
pretensions
shams
smokescreens
blinds
covers
distraction
dodges
fakes
impostures
shift
snares
duck
stalls
red herrings
make-believe
put-ons
put-up jobs
courses of action
scenarios
setups
flimflams
juggles
lurks
game plans
twists
cons
intrigue
brainchildren
bits
schemes
plans
scenes
tactics
gimmicks
actions
knacks
shenanigans
game
sleights
angles
methods
sleight of hand
fetches
booby traps
jigs
rackets
one-upmanships
gamesmanship
wheezes
plots
moves
grifts
strategy
means
measures
systems
design
programmes
UK
programs
US
stunts
scams
ways
procedure
fraud
arrangements
courses
approaches
master plans
trickery
policy
steps
blueprints
tacks
conspiracies
projects
recipes
set-ups
swindles
manoeuvrings
UK
practice
maneuverings
US
methodology
stings
buncos
rorts
ground plans
con tricks
lines
road maps
technique
ideas
craft
formulae
resorts
stopgaps
processes
initiatives
makeshifts
operations
styles
recourse
double-dealing
humbug
schlenters
refuge
instruments
flankers
chicanery
expediency
resources
wangles
modes
proceedings
manners
chicanes
funny business
misrepresentation
sharp practice
traps
hustles
canards
confidence tricks
cabals
manipulation
rigs
covin
enterprises
substitutes
cheating
sells
dirty tricks
fixes
hanky-panky
paths
leg-pulls
red tape
protocol
hocus-pocus
planning
act
roadmaps
form
agency
spoofs
deals
Trojan horses
ventures
frame-ups
delusions
dirty work
imposition
masquerades
media
workflows
illusion
skullduggery
dissimulation
invention
cunning
capers
snow jobs
action plans
proposals
lies
craftiness
finesse
curveballs
secret
tools
routes
rip-offs
proposition
deeds
routine
fashion
modi operandi
jives
switches
collusion
campaigns
frames
artfulness
escapades
duplicity
treachery
projection
decoys
plotting
shell games
codology
agendas
evasion
suggestion
jugglery
possibilities
shuffles
kidology
wrongs
conduct
facades
sport
demarches
hows
exercises
jiggery-pokery
fiddles
intention
alternatives
appliances
sellouts
mechanism
creation
drills
dispositions
complots
pranks
con games
options
slants
catch
monkey business
contraptions
whitewash
grand schemes
legerdemain
undertakings
bamboozlement
relief
fronts
motion
skulduggery
regimens
loopholes
direction
schedules
layouts
efforts
playbooks
equivocation
sophistry
kickers
development
antics
activity
outlines
hypocrisy
behavior
US
praxes
avenues
falsehood
behaviour
UK
choice
distortion
fakery
ambushes
feats
draft
US
draught
UK
subversion
jests
shticks
jokes
sets
variation
tenors
dirty pool
cozenings
baloneys
plants
bills of goods
jazz
hoaxings
unscrupulousness
knavery
dealings
underhandedness
deviousness
make-dos
practicality
expedience
sweet talk
soft soap
mission statements
ministries
agents
vision statements
vehicles
white papers
snow
charades
show
quackery
fraudulence
charlatanry
swindlings
smoke screens
disguises
masks
cloaks
screens
camouflage
innovation
coinage
concoction
wrinkles
customs
standard operating procedures
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nuts and bolts
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stances
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gin
control
military sciences
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roads
logistics
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generalships
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kites
swizzles
monkeyshines
embezzlements
blackmail
crime
barratries
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criminality
string
diddles
villainy
foul play
shakedowns
dishonesty
lures
slyness
guile
fit-ups
perfidy
counterplots
treacherousness
countermines
disloyalty
capability
creativity
ingenuity
stockpiles
sources
surrogates
property
nest eggs
ability
stores
capital
stock
resourcefulness
hoards
cleverness
reserve
originality
worth
wherewithal
substances
support
riches
talents
imagination
wealth
fortune
inventiveness
rides
confidence games
mare's nests
bilks
hokums
shucks
cover-ups
more ❯
Noun
▲
Plural for an ambiguity or inadequacy in a set of rules that can be potentially exploited
loopholes
escapes
flaws
defects
ambiguity
shortcomings
discrepancies
technicalities
outs
crack
dodges
excuse
faults
inadequacy
inconsistency
omission
pretence
UK
pretense
US
slips
subterfuge
alternatives
outlets
workarounds
escape clauses
get-outs
ways out
Verb
▲
To employ a pretext for soliciting the gain of something else
blags
“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
excuses
defends
justifies
rationalises
UK
rationalizes
US
vindicates
explains
mitigates
warrants
sanctions
whitewashes
alibies
appeases
clears
covers
explains away
makes a case for
provides a justification for
provides an explanation for
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