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Pretext vs Pretense

Judy Vorfeld Pretext & Pretense Pretext is a false rea­son given to con­ceal a truth, and comes from a word mean­ing “to weave, before, pre­tend.” Think of a pre­text as hav­ing “tex­ture, a cloth, a cover-up.” Dana told every­one she was laid off because of the econ­omy but she was really fired. She […]

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