Sentence examples for spurious pretext from inspiring English sources
When he asked the landlord to fix it he was forced to leave, on the spurious pretext that he was intimidating his neighbours.
Although activists like me vigorously opposed Stalinism, that didn't stop us being lumped together with Moscow sympathisers, providing a spurious pretext to be targeted.
That using a mobile at the table is rude is not, I think, up for debate – yet most of us still do it from time to time, often on embarrassingly spurious pretexts.
Both pretexts are spurious.
"I think what we're clearly seeing is a political maneuver, using a spurious legal argument as a pretext for shutting off a Cabinet debate that was probably leaning towards staying in the agreement," Paul Bodnar, the former climate chief of the White House's National Security Council, recently told Climatewire.
Tabloid newspapers, she said, were using freedom of speech as a pretext to publish stories that were sometimes spurious.
September 11th was a pretext.
This argument is spurious.
