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under false pretense

ADJECTIVE

secret

Synonyms

STRONGEST

classified confidential covert furtive hush-hush restricted secretive surreptitious

STRONG

backdoor backstairs close inside sneak

WEAK

camouflaged cryptic discreet disguised dissembled dissimulated in ambush incognito sly sneaky stealthy sub-rosa top-secret unacknowledged under-the-table underhanded

Antonyms

STRONGEST

aboveboard forthright honest known open public

WEAK

clear defined explicit legal legitimate revealed unconcealed

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Eight crimes listed in the 1890 version of the provision - bribery, theft, arson, obtaining money or goods under false pretense, perjury, forgery, embezzlement and bigamy - remain as disqualifying offenses today.

From Reuters • Jun. 30, 2023

However, the real-time spread of information has also inflamed people under false pretense.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 9, 2020

Lying to obtain a visa to enter the U.S. under false pretense is illegal.

From Fox News • Sep. 24, 2018

I will never hesitate to defend this nation, but I will never send our sons and daughters to war under false pretense or pretenses or into dubious battles with no end in sight.

From The Guardian • Nov. 19, 2015

And she was so relieved that all of them had lived through the excitement that she could have forgiven a worse crime than his effort to help under false pretense.

From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel

under false pretense

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