Definition of "pretenses" [pretenses]

• Plural form of pretense. (noun)

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• "So — disguising yourself in the Darth Vader costume of the popular guy to have sex with his hot girlfriend under false pretenses is a sleazy, if not probably illegal move, but having seen the amount of crap heaped upon the nerds of Lambda Lambda Lambda by the jocks of Alpha Beta, you might forgive horn-rimmed nerd stereotype Lewis Skolnick (Robert Carradine)."
• "Putting people into debt debt slavery/penury, especially under false pretenses, is wrong."
• "The whole fact that we got involved in the Iraq war underfalse pretenses is enough evidence of that."