Sentence examples similar to deceptive pretexts from inspiring English sources

For slightly over a decade the office of Irani Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been quietly and yet surely taking full control over a large swathe of Iran's economy, all under the deceptive pretext of privatization.

Both pretexts are spurious.

RadarOnline needs no pretexts.

And deceptive.

A monograph is deceptive.

Distances are deceptive.

Physique can be deceptive.

The stillness was deceptive.

But appearances were deceptive.

Appearances can be deceptive.

The term is deceptive.