📖 Определения и значения для слова pretext
📒 a false reason that you give for doing something, usually something bad, in order to hide the real reason; an excuse
- (as a) pretext for (doing) something The incident was used as a pretext for intervention in the area.
- on the pretext of doing something He left the party early on the pretext of having work to do.
- on a/the… pretext People were being arrested on the flimsiest of pretexts.