under false pretences

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if you do something under false pretences, you do it when you have lied about who you are or what you are doing The police charged him with obtaining money under false pretences.

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He as good as told him that he'd come out under false pretences, that the whole affair was a swindle and that the road could not be made. A Millionaire of Yesterday by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good. Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context With this he showed them into a parlour where he kept them waiting, until the two women-servants had repaired thither, under false pretences, to see the play-actors; and having compared notes with them in the passage, and joined in a vast quantity of whispering and giggling, he at length went upstairs with Miss Snevellicci's name. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles View in context			type type into type out type over type up ugly ugly as a toad ugly as sin umbrage unaccustomed to unbosom oneself to unbowed unburden oneself to uncle Uncle Sam under a cloud under a microscope under a spell under arrest under attack under belt under breath under certain circumstances under construction under control under false pretences under fire under heel under lock and key under no circumstances under normal circumstances under nose under oath under own steam under pressure under scrutiny under the aegis of under the banner of under the circumstances under the counter under the gun under the influence under the knife under the skin under the sun under the table under the weather under the wing of under the wire under thumb under way			under control Under correction Under Counter under cover under cover under cover under cover under cover Under Cover (Ozzy Osbourne album) Under Cover (Ozzy Osbourne album) Under Cover Of Under Cover of Darkness Under cover removal Under covert Under Death Sentence Under Deck Tonnage Under Declaration of Trust Under Defeat Under Development Under Digging Under Direction of God under discussion under dispute Under Duress under examination Under Execution Under Jailbreak under eyes under eyes under eyes under eyes under false pretences under feet under feet under feet under feet under fiduciary control under fire under fire under fire under fire under fire under fire Under Fire Gaming League Under Five Mortality Rate Under Floor Air Distribution Under Floor Central Heating Under floor heating Under floor heating Under floor heating Under Flying Seal Under foot Under Foregrip Intergrated Rail Under Frequency Roll Off under full sail under full sail Under garments under general Under General Anesthesia Under Graduate Aptitude Test Under Graduate Entrance Test Under Grand Hotel

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