false pretense
Lying to deceive
False pretense is a deliberate misrepresentation made to obtain something of value—money, property, or trust.
The phrase appears most often in legal contexts: He was charged with obtaining goods under false pretenses.
More broadly, acting under false pretenses means presenting yourself dishonestly to gain an advantage: She got the job under false pretenses by lying about her credentials.
- bad faithIntentional deception in dealings
- fraudIntentional criminal trickery
- deceptionIntentional misleading of others
- con artistProfessional fraud perpetrator
- confidence gameFraud using false trust
long con · misrepresentation · duplicity · subterfuge · guise · dissimulation · sham · fraudulence · bait-and-switch · smoke and mirrors · artifice · hypocrisy · impersonation · stolen valor · ulterior motive · trickery · lie · dishonesty
- deceptionlie, lies, lying, fake, fraud
- fraud termslying, cheating, scam, fake, con
- Redundanciestautology, pleonasm, redundancy, redundant phrase, added bonus
- scamsscam, scams, fraud, frauds, swindle
- contract defectsduress, fraud, misrepresentation, mistake, nullity
- tricksmagic trick, card trick, card tricks, coin trick, rope trick
false pretensefull disclosure
Withholding no information
truthfulness · candor · transparency · honesty · forthrightness
false pretenseauthenticity
Quality of being genuine
genuineness · true self · sincerity · being oneself · realness
false, pretend, pretense, falsehood, falsely, falsify, falsified, falsification, falsifying