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Stewart also pleaded guilty to collecting about $261,000 on false pretenses from another small business loan program, the Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program, which provides low-interest financing to struggling small businesses during disasters.

Sometimes they would send a target an infected file under the pretense of collaborating on vulnerability research.

From Fortune

It had a lot of joy because there was not a lot of pretense.

The Republican Party has proved that its hatred of liberals is so foundational that it will abandon any pretense of commitment to democracy, if democracy allows for the possibility that liberals might win an election.

We’ve dropped the pretense that this is not a looks-based profession.

In Iraq and Syria, unlike in Libya, there is no pretense that this is anything less than war in the constitutional sense.

We would perhaps be tossing out any pretense of traditional baseball in exchange for popular thrill-a-minute spectacle.

They are winning incremental battles under the pretense of health regulations and parental consent.

There is not even the pretense of actual interaction with voters.

All along, Orman never made any pretense about her sexuality.

After long delays Crane and Keith made pretense of building camps and starting to log.

No one who makes any pretense of seeing England will miss either of these places.

Come, Peter Snooks, to the dog that was never far out of sight, well at least make a pretense of being useful.

What oceans of futility one discovered, what mountains of pretense—and with what forests of scholarship grown over them!

Ruth always suspected that Uncle Jabez Potter made a pretense of being really worse than he was.

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On this page you'll find 114 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pretense, such as: charade, cloak, pretext, semblance, veneer, and act.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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