Pretences
[pri:,tensiz]
Examples
- All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Fair words and fair pretences; but I penetrated below those assertions of themselves and depreciations of me, and they were no better. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Then you married me on false pretences. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Then you married me on false pretences? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Their usual pretences are, sometimes the high price of provisions, sometimes the great profit which their masters make by their work. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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