Associations to the word «Pretext»
Noun
- Provocation
- Quarrel
- Seizing
- Purge
- Manchuria
- Hostility
- Aggression
- Conspirator
- Pretence
- Danzig
- Excuse
- Overthrow
- Grievance
- Ruse
- Coup
- Tyranny
- Invasion
- Glad
- Byzantium
- Duc
- Expulsion
- Assassination
- Dismissal
- Incursion
- Insurrection
- Deportation
- Repression
- Claudius
- Anu
- Richelieu
- Revolt
- Athenian
- Junta
- Reprisal
- Plunder
- Justinian
- Armenian
- Annexation
- Truce
- Justification
- Pretense
- Mademoiselle
- Persecution
- Heresy
- Intervention
- Soviets
- Consul
- Annex
- Bey
- Motive
- Outrage
- Decree
- Transvaal
- Confederacy
Adjective
Wiktionary
PRETEXT, noun. A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason; a pretense.
PRETEXT, verb. To employ a pretext, which involves using a false or contrived purpose for soliciting the gain of something else.
Dictionary definition
PRETEXT, noun. Something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason.
PRETEXT, noun. An artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them".
Wise words
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry
and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.