Read full poem →For war's crushed myriads of his slaughtered foes.
He is right scrupulous in one pretext
And wholesale errors swallows in the next.
Dictionary Entry
A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason; a pretense.
In a Sentence
“The reporter called the company on the pretext of trying to resolve a consumer complaint.”
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Common Phrases
. pretextwhatever pretextwhatsoever pretextpretext anypretext underpretext onepretext slightestpretext plausible
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Poetry examples for “pretext”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The "Separation" and its consequent exile afforded a pretext and an
opportunity for the publication of a crop of spurious verses. Of these
Read full poem →"Dante's tomb, the classical pinewood," and so forth, had afforded a
pretext for the invitation to be given and accepted, and, at length,
when she was, as she imagined, "at the point of death," he arrived,