NOUN
- (law) an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation
How To Use false pretense In A Sentence
- Immigration officers attempt to catch people entering the country under false pretenses.
- We believe these Rules are violated whenever an attorney 'friends' an individual under false pretenses to obtain evidence from a social networking website. Bill Singer: Danger: Legal Sharks Circle Online Posters
- The woman could sue him for scaring the piss out of her under false pretenses, but then, he could countersue for grievous bodily dog bites. Margaret Atwood | Underbrush Man
- As he hovers between life and death, another patient, the hypochondriacal Sally Druse, checks herself in under false pretenses.
- What bank, loan shark, or regular citizen would fund a desperado living a hand-to-mouth existence under false pretenses? OUTCAST
- Code like a kind of jurisprudential minefield: Crimes like "false statements" (a felony, up to five years), "obstructing the mails" (five years), or "false pretenses on the high seas" (also five years). Archive 2007-10-14
- false pretenses
- What bank, loan shark, or regular citizen would fund a desperado living a hand-to-mouth existence under false pretenses? OUTCAST
- They obtained money under the false pretenses of patriotism.
- Besides we all KNOW that getting a bj is much worse than starting an illegal immoral war under false pretenses … or is “pretense” just another fancy liberal word for a “lie?” Think Progress » Don’t call it a comeback:
