false pretense

Similarly opaque is misdemeanor crime 18 U.S.C. 1036—“entry by false pretense.”

“I have been arousing your sympathy by false pretense,” he said, and the laughter in his voice demanded a real effort.

These he scorned the more bitterly for their false pretense, demanding plain meat and a lot of it.

Yet she had a curious feeling within her, as if she was here under some kind of false pretense.

The Duchess said she was certain that the sage Merlin would not tolerate any such false pretense.

The false pretense must stop of spending money on waterways merely as a club to lower railroad rates.