Synonyms for pretenses
pre·tens·es

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1. List of paraphrases for "pretenses":

   pretexts, pretences

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1. Troy Slaten:

   It is unlikely because the people receiving the shot have not committed a crime unless they actively conspired to defraud somebody which the end-user did not, people who administered the drug may have conspired to obtain it under false pretenses, which we dont know yet, but the patient did not do that.

2. Daniel Knighton/Getty Images:

   If I think its funny, if my audience will thinkits funny, then Illdo the joke, you know? ive always run underthe pretenses of if you dont like the comedian andyou dont think that hes funny then dont go to his show, dont buy his stuff -- thats how it works.

3. unknown:

   Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripples ourselves with lies.

4. The FBI:

   Defendants case is not an isolated one, but instead appears to be part of a program conducted by the PLAand specifically, FMMU or associated institutionsto send military scientists to the United States on false pretenses with false covers or false statements about their true employment.

5. Eric Hoffer:

   Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.