false pretense

false pretense noun act, affectation, affectedness, artifice, artificiality, assumed basis, bogus purpose, bogus reason, chicane, chicanery, circumvention, circumvention of truth, cozenage, deceit, deceitful purpose, deceitfulness, deeeptive reason, deceptive representation of fact, delusion, designed misrepresentation, device, disguise, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation, dupery, duplicity, evasion of truth, fabrication, facade, factitious reasons, fake, fake reaaons, fakery, false representation of fact, falsehood, falseness, falsification, falsity, falsus, feigned basis, feint, fictus, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, guise, hoax, imposture, improper, improper basis, improper innent, improper intention, improper motivation, improper motive, improper pretensions, intentional untruths, lie, mask, masquerade, mendacity, misinformation, misrepresentation, misstatement, perfidy, perversion of truth, pettifoggery, pretense, pretext, prevarication, ruse, sham, simulated basis, simulation, simulatus, sleight, spuriius reasons, spuriousness, stratagem, subterfuge, suppression of truth, surreptitiousness, swindle, treacherousness, treachery, trick, trumped-up basis, trumped-up reasons, unnaturalness, untruth, untruthfulness, wile, wrong foundation, wrong incentive
Associated concepts: cheating by false pretenses, false reppesentation, larceny, obtaining property by false pretenses, under false pretenses

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See also: pretext