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What is another word for pretences?

Pronunciation: [pɹɪtˈɛnsɪz] (IPA)

The word "pretences" is often used to refer to false claims or assertions made by an individual or organization. Some synonyms for this term include pretensions, feigning, deceit, deception, and guise. Other similar words that can be used in place of pretences include pretense, sham, façade, cover-up, and show. These words indicate that someone is presenting themselves or their actions in a dishonest or misleading manner. It is important to be aware of these synonyms and their meanings in order to accurately convey the intended message about someone's behavior or statements.
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  • Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
    John Buchan
  • True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.
    Joe Wilson
  • If there be in nature such a principle as justice, it is necessarily the only principle there ever was, or ever will be.  All the other so-called political principles, which men are in the habit of inventing, are not principles at all.  They are either the mere conceits of simpletons, who imagine they have discovered something better than truth, and justice, and universal law; or they are mere devices and pretences, to which selfish and knavish men resort as means to get fame, and power, and money.
    Lysander Spooner
  • It is moral by his code to get into office by false pretences. It is moral to change convictions overnight. Anything is moral that furthers the main concern of his soul, which is to keep a place at the public trough.
    H. L. Mencken

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