false pretense

I noun act, affectation, affectedness, artifice, artificiality, chicane, chicanery, circumvention, circumvention of truth, cozenage, deceit, deceitfulness, deceptive representation of fact, delusion, designed misrepresentation, device, disguise, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation, dupery, duplicity, evasion of truth, fabrication, facade, fake, fakery, false representation of fact, falsehood, falseness, falsification, falsity, falsus, feint, fictus, forgery, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, guise, hoax, imposture, invention, lie, mask, masquerade, mendacity, misinformation, misrepresentation, misstatement, perfidy, perversion of truth, pettifoggery, pretense, pretext, prevarication, ruse, sham, simulation, simulatus, sleight, spuriousness, stratagem, subterfuge, suppression of truth, surreptitiousness, swindle, treacherousness, treachery, trick, underhandedness, unnatural ness, untruth, untruthfulness, unveracity, wile associated concepts: cheating by false pretenses, deceit, false representation, fraud, larceny, obtaining property by false pretenses, under false pretenses II index pretext