n. 1 pretence, excuse, camouflage, guise, disguise, cover, veil, cloak, colour They carried on the surveillance under pretext of working on the sewer 2 ruse, red herring, cover (story), rationale, pretence, rationalization, explanation: What pretext did the thief use that made you let him in?
PRETEXT
Meaning of PRETEXT in English
Oxford thesaurus English vocab. Английский словарь Оксфорд тезаурус. 2012