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False pretence

noun

(law) an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation. Synonym: false pretense.

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"False pretence" Quotes from Famous Books

... preference of the objects of his immediate solicitude than Mr. Burke has ever done. A man so circumstanced often seems to undervalue, to vilify, almost to reprobate and disown, those that are out of danger. This is the voice of nature and truth, and not of inconsistency and false pretence. The danger of anything very dear to us removes, for the moment, every other affection from the mind. When Priam had his whole thoughts employed on the body of his Hector, he repels with indignation, and drives from him with a thousand reproaches, his surviving sons, ...

— Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. • Edmund Burke

... fact is, that this very interest appears to put them in an attitude of partial defiance toward each other. I believe the most charitable traveller must come to the conclusion, that the professed love of the whites for the blacks was mostly a monstrous sham or a downright false pretence. For myself, I judge that it was nothing ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 • Various

Words linked to "False pretence" : infraction, infringement, violation, law, misdemeanor, jurisprudence, misdemeanour