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Excuse to do or say something that is not accurate
A pretext (adj.: pretextual) is a false reason for an action given to conceal the true motivation. A person may give a pretext because if others understood
Pretext
Type of social engineering attack
Pretexting, known in the UK as blagging, is a type of social engineering attack that involves a situation, or pretext, created by an attacker in order
Pretexting
Psychological manipulation in information security
bank account details. Pretexting, also known in the UK as blagging, is the act of creating and using an invented scenario (the pretext) to engage a targeted
Social_engineering_(security)
Act or event that provokes or is used to justify war
wars". A casus belli intentionally based on inaccurate facts is known as a pretext. This section outlines a number of the more famous and/or controversial
Casus_belli
English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)
Aldous Leonard Huxley (/ˈɔːldəs/ AWL-dəs; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books
Aldous_Huxley
A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies is a 2004 book by journalist James Bamford that takes a highly critical
A_Pretext_for_War
American serial killer (1942–1994)
lure a victim to his home and dupe them into donning handcuffs on the pretext of demonstrating a magic trick. He would then rape and torture his captive
John_Wayne_Gacy
Brief detainment by police in the United States
related to drug possession, and uses a minor traffic infringement as a pretext to stop the driver. In the case of Whren, the defense used a "would-have"
Terry_stop
Political philosophy emphasising social ownership of production
Socialism. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674339460. Roosa, John (2006). Pretext for Mass Murder: 30 September Movement and Suharto's Coup d'État in Indonesia
Socialism
Whistleblower and NSA contractor (born 1983)
permitted temporary leave from his position at the NSA in Hawaii, on the pretext of receiving treatment for his epilepsy. In mid-May, Snowden gave an electronic
Edward_Snowden
President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
charges of Iraqi resistance to U.N access to suspected weapons were the pretext for crises between 1997 and 1998, culminating in intensive U.S. and British
Saddam_Hussein
Global conflict (1939–1945)
saw as the country's right to rule Asia, staged the Mukden incident as a pretext to invade Manchuria and establish the puppet state of Manchukuo. China
World_War_II
German diplomat (1909–1938)
1938 by a Polish Jewish teenager, Herschel Grynszpan, which was used as a pretext for Kristallnacht, "The Night of Broken Glass" on 9–10 November 1938. Historians
Ernst_vom_Rath
Country in Southeast Asia
insurgency, the United States used the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident as a pretext for increasing its contribution of military advisers. US forces became
Vietnam
King of the United Kingdom from 1820 to 1830
power with the other. Possibly using the failure of the two peers as a pretext, George immediately reappointed the Perceval administration, with Lord
George_IV
1989 murder of Japanese high school girl
attack in the middle of December, Furuta was beaten by the group, on the pretext that Miyano had stepped on a puddle of her urine, after which he burned
Murder_of_Junko_Furuta
Country in North Africa
Tunisian international debt grew unmanageable. This was the reason or pretext for French forces to establish a protectorate in 1881. In 1869, Tunisia
Tunisia
Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945
for Sudeten Germans from the Czechoslovak government, thus providing a pretext for German military action against Czechoslovakia. In April 1938, Henlein
Adolf_Hitler
1756 siege during the Seven Years' War
After he became Nawab he began searching for a pretext to drive the company from his lands. The first pretext centered around Kissendass, the son of a high-ranking
Siege_of_Calcutta
Phase since 2022 of war ongoing since 2014
that Russia knew its "unrealistic demands" would be rejected, giving it a pretext to invade. No countries bordering Russia had joined NATO since 2004. Ukraine
Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)
Russo-Ukrainian_war_(2022–present)
Roman emperor from 117 to 138
Septicius Clarus, was dismissed for the same alleged reason, perhaps a pretext to remove him from office. Hadrian spent the winter of 122/123 at Tarraco
Hadrian
1914–1918 global conflict
volunteered to join the Russian forces and the Ottoman government used this as a pretext to issue the Tehcir Law (Law on Deportation), which authorised the deportation
World_War_I
Country in Central Asia
violations in Andijan are invented by the enemies of Uzbekistan as a convenient pretext for intervention in the country's internal affairs. Male and female homosexuality
Uzbekistan
1962 proposed U.S. false flag operation against American citizens
National Security Archive on 30 April 2001. Responding to a request for pretexts for military intervention by the Chief of Operations of the Cuba Project
Operation_Northwoods
Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
status), of which Hitler granted only 12. Anthony Gottlieb writes that the pretext was that their paternal grandfather had been the bastard son of a German
Ludwig_Wittgenstein
1899–1901 anti-foreign uprising in China
government, at the insistence of war minister Aleksey Kuropatkin, used the pretext of Boxer activity to move some 200,000 troops led by Paul von Rennenkampf
Boxer_Rebellion
Species of gastropod
Amoria praetexta, common name the pretext volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. The length
Amoria_praetexta
international observers suggested that the espionage claims were a baseless pretext for fulfilling a long-held ambition to reduce the Afghan population and
2025 Afghan deportation from Iran
2025_Afghan_deportation_from_Iran
Practice and advocacy of social nudity
as documentaries of the naturist lifestyle. In fact this was largely a pretext to exploit a loophole in censorship laws restricting the exhibition of
Naturism
Roman politician and general (83–30 BC)
all hopes of finding a peaceful solution gone, Caesar used Antony as a pretext for marching on Rome. As tribune, Antony's person was sacrosanct, so it
Mark_Antony
King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1727 to 1760
Celle, both committed adultery. In 1694 the marriage was dissolved on the pretext that Sophia Dorothea had abandoned her husband. She was confined to Ahlden
George_II_of_Great_Britain
Subset of artificial intelligence
Misra, Ishan; Maaten, Laurens van der (2020). Self-Supervised Learning of Pretext-Invariant Representations. 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision
Machine_learning
1993 film by Nora Ephron
Annie travels to Seattle on a work assignment arranged by Becky as a pretext to learn more about him. While dropping Victoria off at the airport, Sam
Sleepless_in_Seattle
Malware program
account login information and banking codes. It has also been used as a pretext by scammers whom claim that their victim has been affected by this malware
Tiny_Banker
German Nazi leader of the SS (1900–1945)
at the University of Bonn. When Hitler and his army chiefs asked for a pretext for the invasion of Poland in 1939, Himmler, Heydrich, and Heinrich Müller
Heinrich_Himmler
1944 Ailanthus-class net laying ship
to the Royal Navy under Lend-Lease in August 1944. Commissioned as HMS Pretext (Z284), she served the United Kingdom until she was returned to United
HMNZS_Endeavour_(1944)
Wooden lattice tower in Gliwice, Poland
Germany staged a false flag attack on the tower in 1939, which was used as a pretext for invading Poland, beginning World War II. The Gliwice Radio Tower is
Gliwice_Radio_Tower
World's fair held in Brussels, Belgium
Brussels overall. Expo 58 left a deep impression on Belgium. It was also the pretext for major upheavals and works in Brussels, whose boulevards were transformed
Expo_58
Covert operation designed to deceive
enemy nations or terrorists, thus giving the nation that attacked itself a pretext for domestic repression or foreign military aggression (as well as to engender
False_flag
Habsburg monarch from 1848 to 1916
Empire Hungarian Revolutionary Army Kingdom of Hungary Russian Empire Pretext April Laws Major battles Pákozd Schwechat Mór Kápolna Battles of Komárom
Franz_Joseph_I
Leader of Spain from 1939 to 1975
Communist coup d'état as well a pretended state of "social chaos" became pretexts for a coup. Franco himself along with General Emilio Mola had stirred an
Francisco_Franco
Group of loosely affiliated 9/11 conspiracy theorists
Motives suggested by the movement include the use of the attacks as a pretext to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and to create opportunities to curtail
9/11_truth_movement
Hostility, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews
Alexander II (r. 1855–1881). However, his assassination in 1881 served as a pretext for further repression, such as the May Laws of 1882. Konstantin Pobedonostsev
Antisemitism
American woman on death row for murder in Texas
her to ensure she would not testify. After bringing Walker out under the pretext of dinner, Cargill killed Walker by unknown means, resulting in Walker's
Kimberly_Cargill
American web portal
Liberman that he had done so. Liberman's excuse for terminating [Ard] was a pretext. A second sexual discrimination lawsuit was filed separately by Gregory
Yahoo
1974 referendum to establish a Greek republic following the end of military rule; passed
producing a vote in favor of a republic, which Georgios Papadopoulos used as a pretext to have himself declared President. However, after the collapse of the
1974 Greek republic referendum
1974_Greek_republic_referendum
King of France from 1643 to 1715
coming-of-age and subsequent coronation deprived them of the Frondeurs' pretext for revolt. The Fronde thus gradually lost steam and ended in 1653, when
Louis_XIV
2003–2011 conflict in Iraq
2004 that the occupation of Iraq had become "a potent global recruitment pretext" for Mujahideen and that the invasion "galvanised" al-Qaeda and "perversely
Iraq_War
1993 Indian film
treatment for her father. He continues to come to her house often, more on the pretext of seeing her than her father. Eventually, they get married. Years pass
Maya_Memsaab
French colony and later territory in Northern Africa from 1830 to 1962
also ordered a large-scale attack on Algiers between 1682 and 1683 on the pretext of assisting and rescuing enslaved Christians, usually Europeans taken
French_Algeria
Religious subgroup of modern Judaism
either tzedakah or the leader's needs. Occasions in the "court" serve as a pretext for mass gatherings, flaunting the power, wealth and size of each. Weddings
Hasidic_Judaism
Indian politician (born 1957)
way Brij Bhushan used to touch their breasts and stomach sexually on the pretext of checking their breath, in a police complaint on 21 April 2023. One of
Brij_Bhushan_Sharan_Singh
Sovereign state in Italy (697–1797)
the power of some of the old houses decreased and in 1310, under the pretext of defeat in the War of Ferrara, these families organized themselves in
Republic_of_Venice
King of England from 1413 to 1422
such pressure could have been brought to bear. Beneath these immediate pretexts lay the old dynastic claim to the French throne first pursued by Edward
Henry_V_of_England
Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990
November 1962, the British declined to support the operation without a pretext, noting that Lim and the Barisan Sosialis had not broken any laws. The
Lee_Kuan_Yew
City in Aleppo Governorate, Syria
Between 1954 and 1983, many old neighborhoods were demolished under this pretext for expansion, particularly in the northern areas such as Bab al-Faraj
Aleppo
1931–32 invasion of China prior to the Second Sino-Japanese War
incident, a false flag event staged by Japanese military personnel as a pretext to invade. At the war's end in February 1932, the Japanese established
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
Japanese_invasion_of_Manchuria
British true crime documentary
emotionally manipulated into financially supporting his lavish lifestyle on the pretext he needed the money to escape his "enemies". An Israeli man, born Shimon
The_Tinder_Swindler
Ottoman prince
release Orhan as a challenger unless the tribute money might've provided a pretext for the siege Constantinople, although preparations for the siege had already
Orhan_Çelebi
2018 film directed by Mike Leigh
was peaceful but the armed government militias charged the crowd on the pretext of an attempt to arrest a leader of the meeting. The behaviour of the crowd
Peterloo_(film)
Revolution in Iran from 1978 to 1979
000 innocent protesters were massacred by Zionists," which gave him a pretext to reject any further compromise with the government. The Shah was horrified
Iranian_Revolution
Capital and largest city of Egypt
opera house. The immense debt resulting from Isma'il's projects provided a pretext for increasing European control, which culminated with the British invasion
Cairo
Corporate information leak investigation
recruited private investigators who used a spying technique known as pretexting. The pretexting involved investigators impersonating HP board members and nine
Hewlett-Packard spying scandal
Hewlett-Packard_spying_scandal
Political party in Iran
were executed. The Iranian government used the MEK's failed invasion as a pretext for the mass execution of those "who remained steadfast in their support
People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
People's_Mojahedin_Organization_of_Iran
19th-century Russian grand duke
brother Nicholas became tsar in 1825. The succession controversy became the pretext of the Decembrist revolt. Konstantin was known to eschew court etiquette
Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia
Grand_Duke_Konstantin_Pavlovich_of_Russia
Systematic campaign in the Ottoman Empire
Armenians expected to be killed, but if they refused, it would provide a pretext for massacres. Armenians fortified themselves in Van and repelled the Ottoman
Armenian_genocide
2024 film by S.K. Dale
She eventually seduces a reluctant Nick and the two have sex, under the pretext of relieving his stress. Meanwhile, Nick faces workplace tensions as robots
Subservience
Holy Roman Emperor from 1519 to 1556
grandfather Ferdinand took control of all the Spanish kingdoms, under the pretext of protecting Charles's rights, which in reality he wanted to elude. Ferdinand's
Charles_V,_Holy_Roman_Emperor
Sultan of Bijapur from 1656 to 1672
Bijapur Kingdom. Shah Jahan, anxious to annex Bijapur to his empire, found a pretext in the legitimacy of Ali's parents. On Aurangzeb’s plea, Shah Jahan sanctioned
Ali_Adil_Shah_II
Fictional character from My Little Pony
appeared in the School of Friendship library organizing books on shelves as a pretext to spy on her fellow students' conversations. While the backstory of Cozy
Cozy_Glow
1866 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky
scheme he has devised to murder and rob an elderly pawnbroker. On the pretext of pawning a watch, he visits her apartment, but he remains unable to commit
Crime_and_Punishment
Last pre-Islamic Iranian empire (224–651 AD)
(602–610) in 602, however, Khosrow II used the murder of his benefactor as a pretext to begin a new invasion, which benefited from continuing civil war in the
Sasanian_Empire
1942 film by Michael Curtiz
the Germans. Afterwards, Strasser has Renault close the club on a flimsy pretext. Later, Ilsa confronts Rick in the deserted café; when he refuses to give
Casablanca_(film)
Medieval Anglo-French conflicts, 1337–1453
tension between the kings of France and England over territory; the official pretext was the interruption of the direct male line of the Capetian dynasty.[citation
Hundred_Years'_War
Misogynistic online harassment campaign
disaffected voices in an act of continual regeneration, cycling through targets, pretexts, manifestoes, and moralisms". Polygon's Grant said that as of October 2014
Gamergate
1676 Russian military expedition
from power. The campaign ended in a Doroshenko's surrender and became a pretext for the Chyhyryn campaigns of 1677 and 1678. The Russian forces and the
Chyhyryn_campaign_(1676)
Roman reformer and plebeian tribune in 88 BC
kindled the deadly rivalry between Gaius Marius and Sulla, and provided the pretext for Sulla's unexpected march on Rome. Publius Sulpicius Rufus was probably
Publius_Sulpicius_Rufus
President of the United States from 1829 to 1837
nullification: "the tariff was only the pretext, and disunion and southern confederacy the real object. The next pretext will be the negro, or slavery question"
Andrew_Jackson
M23 rebel offensive in the DR Congo
Rwanda have opportunistically exploited the presence of the FDLR as a pretext for broader political and economic ambitions in eastern DRC, particularly
M23_campaign_(2022–present)
Maghrebi traveller and scholar (1304–1368/1369)
suspicion of treason for a variety of offences. His plan to leave on the pretext of taking another hajj was stymied by the Sultan. The opportunity for Battuta
Ibn_Battuta
1542 siege
Yorishige. Suwa was escorted back to the provincial capital of Kōfu under "the pretext of safe conduct, but he was then forced to commit suicide." Turnbull, Stephen
Siege_of_Kuwabara
German SS officer and war criminal (1913–1991)
democratic regime of Hernán Siles Zuazo arrested Barbie in La Paz on the pretext of his owing the government US$10,000 for goods he was supposed to have
Klaus_Barbie
German state from 1525 to 1947
of the Reich deposed the Prussian government on 20 July 1932, under the pretext that the latter had lost control of public order in Prussia (during the
Prussia
1814 painting by Francisco de Goya
first-hand the French occupation of Spain in 1808, when Napoleon used the pretext of reinforcing his army in Portugal to seize the Spanish throne, leaving
The_Second_of_May_1808
1941 airstrike in Hungary (today Košice, Slovakia)
then part of Hungary, today Košice in Slovakia. This attack became the pretext for the government of Hungary to declare war on the Soviet Union the next
Bombing_of_Kassa
Grandson of Muhammad and the second Shia Imam (625–670)
for the supporters of Ali indicates that the revenge for Uthman was a pretext for him to seize the caliphate, according to Jafri. In the surrender ceremony
Hasan_ibn_Ali
zones and used the Mexican government's failure to suppress the raids as a pretext for declaring independence. The Texas Revolution or Texas War of Independence
History_of_Mexico
2012 murder in Nigeria
Facebook, lured from her residence in Abuja to a Lagos hotel under the pretext of business, then drugged, tied up, robbed, raped, beaten and strangled
Murder_of_Cynthia_Okogosu
Capital of Liaoning, China
Rebellion in 1900, Russian forces used that anti-foreigner insurgency as a pretext to formally invade and occupy most of Manchuria, and Mukden became a Russian
Shenyang
Japanese nation state from 1868 to 1947
materialism caused by Westernized democracy. This provided them with a pretext to promote militarism and weakened the Taishō Democracy. In the infamous
Empire_of_Japan
1995 film by Bryan Singer
Keaton was actually Keyser Söze: he organized the assault on the boat as a pretext for assassinating Marquez and faking his death. Verbal finally confesses
The_Usual_Suspects
American serial killer
various suburbs, before moving to Aurora in 1978. On March 6, 1979, on the pretext of selling marijuana, Lindahl lured 20-year-old Annette Lazar into his
Bruce_Lindahl_(criminal)
American author, journalist and documentary producer
member of the newspaper's Board of Contributors. And in 2004 he released A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq. and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies (Doubleday)
James_Bamford
1993 novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee
human colony leader starts bombing the octospider city under a made-up pretext and the octospiders retaliate, the situation becomes dire enough that Rama's
Rama_Revealed
Violent incident in Andijan, Uzbekistan
Critics of the government argue that the Islamist radical label provides a pretext for maintaining a repressive regime in the country. A third theory is that
Andijan_massacre
1927–1949 civil war in China
China and send Marines to guard the seaports. — President Truman Using the pretext of "receiving the Japanese surrender", business interests within the KMT
Chinese_Civil_War
fire—the 1933 arson of the German parliament building that Hitler used as a pretext to suspend civil liberties and prosecute political opposition—some calling
Terrorism in the United States
Terrorism_in_the_United_States
1931 Japan false flag railway explosion
incident was a false flag event staged by Japanese military personnel as a pretext for the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria. On September 18, 1931, Lieutenant
Mukden_incident
International US-owned broadcaster
1947, VOA started broadcasting to the Soviet citizens in Russia under the pretext of countering "more harmful instances of Soviet propaganda directed against
Voice_of_America
Ethnic group native to the Armenian highlands
(Christian) Armenians as liable to ally with Imperial Russia, and used it as a pretext to deal with the entire Armenian population as an enemy within their empire
Armenians
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Girl/Female
Indian
Powerful, Able
Girl/Female
Hindu
Goddess Sita
Boy/Male
Tamil
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Given by God, Lord Vishnu
Female
English
 English adopted use of German Avis ("refuge in war"). But its popularity in the Middle Ages was due to its association with the Latin noun avis, AVIS means "bird."Â
Boy/Male
British, English, Teutonic
Noble; Highborn and Renowned
Female
English
English short form of Latin Penelope, PEN means "weaver of cunning."
Girl/Female
Hindu
Beautiful pretty
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Reep 2.Irish (County Mayo) : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Réabaigh ‘descendant of Réabach’, a personal name probably derived from réabach ‘tearing’.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Getter
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Maltby in Cleveland, Lincolnshire, and North and South Yorkshire, or Mautby in Norfolk, all named with the Old Norse byname Malti ‘sharp’, ‘bitter’ + Old Norse býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’.
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a.
Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious; as, a plausible pretext; plausible manners; a plausible delusion.
n.
That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint.
n.
Ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color or cover for the real reason or motive; pretense; disguise.
n.
A pretext.
a.
Practiced under the pretext of religion; prompted by mistaken piety; as, pious errors; pious frauds.
a.
Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; bootless; useless.
n.
A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion.
n.
That which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense; a mask; a cover.
n.
A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext; as, a peg to hang a claim upon.
n.
That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
prep.
Denoting relation to something that comprehends or includes, that represents or designates, that furnishes a cover, pretext, pretense, or the like; as, he betrayed him under the guise of friendship; Morpheus is represented under the figure of a boy asleep.