Pretexts Synonyms and Antonyms

Pretexts Sentence Examples

• As the prospect diminished of her bearing children to Charles, several schemes were set on foot for procuring a divorce on various pretexts.

• The quarrels of the church and empire lend pretexts and furnish war-cries; but the real question at issue is not the supremacy of pope or emperor.

• Spain, France, Germany, with their Swiss auxiliaries, had been summoned upon various pretexts to partake her provinces.

• The abolition of debts was carried into effect, but the land distribution was put off by Agesilaus on various pretexts.

• Moreover, a neo-acquisita commissio was constituted to inquire into the title-deeds of the Magyar landowners in the old Turkish provinces, and hundreds of estates were transferred, on the flimsiest of pretexts, to naturalized foreigners.