Meanings (ES + gloss)
callejuela • pretexto
A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason; a pretense.
"After all," said the Chevalier, "these portraits—Madame de I'Hôpital's fortune-telling—the pleasure we take in a lover or a physician—may all be referred to the same cause,—we do…
The reporter called the company on the pretext of trying to resolve a consumer complaint.
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pretextar
To employ a pretext, which involves using a false or contrived purpose for soliciting the gain of something else.
The spy obtained his phone records using possibly-illegal pretexting methods.
[…] the something in the air of these establishments; the vibration of the vast, strange life of the town; the influence of the types, the performers, concocting their messages; th…
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