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false pretencesplural nounBehaviour intended to deceive others: he obtained money by false pretences...- Detained without trial for several months, his sentence for obtaining money under false pretences was eventually reduced to three months.
- Two months later he was arrested by the local police for ‘obtaining money by false pretences and theft’.
- He said: ‘The people who run these businesses are making money under false pretences and this practice should be stopped.’
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