Similar words: pretence, pretend, pretense, on the pretext of, pretended, pretender, pretending, pretension. Meaning: n. (law) an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation.
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1) She was accused of obtaining money under false pretences.
2) He was accused of obtaining money under false pretences.
3) You brought me here under false pretences!
4) He was deported for entering the country under false pretences.
5) The thieves got into the house under false pretences,[http://sentencedict.com/false pretence.html] by saying they had come to repair the water taps.
6) I felt as if I was there under false pretences.
7) He got a loan from the bank under false pretences.
8) I got into your office under false pretences, but there was no other way.
9) They beguiled him of his right by false pretence.
10) False pretence or us false pretense.
11) I dislike people that act on false pretence and that our self centered.
12) It is wrong to ensure the lawsuit false pretence as the swindle crime, though it has some characters of swindle crime.
13) I could not go on living with a man who had married me under false pretences.
14) He was only interested in himself and his business, and had married her under false pretences.
15) He brought me down here to work for him under false pretences.
16) He argued that the old distinction between the offence of false pretences and larceny had been preserved.
17) This statement represents the old doctrine in regard to obtaining property by false pretences, to which I shall advert presently.
18) Old terminology such as larceny, larceny by a trick, false pretences and embezzlement were replaced by modern terms.
19) Chinese and Indian workers are more likely to skip off work under the false pretence of illness than their French and Mexican counterparts, a new study showed.
20) He was sent to prison for obtaining money by false pretence.
21) He is send to prison for obtain money by false pretence.
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