Sentence examples for false pretence from inspiring English sources

To take money from people on any false pretence is criminal.

Every week for the Saints there has been this false pretence that they are a much better team than their record shows, but the reality is otherwise.

It's a completely manufactured value based upon people's narcissism and the false pretence that somehow these products – gold, diamonds – make them special.

Far better, then, to maintain the entirely false pretence that all the poor and the unemployed need to escape their poverty is much better access to financial services.

Graduates are often under the false pretence, Marshall believes, that there is a market for what they've studied, rather than a market for skills demanded by business – which could include their speciality.

There is no shame in admitting that the party made tremendous mistakes under Blair - the great shame would be to pursue the same set of politics under a false pretence of loyalty.

We went to war under false pretences.

We went in under false pretences.

I would have won it under false pretences".

Frankly, I have been brought here under false pretences.

She got out of prison on false pretences".