Usually means: Excuses used to justify actions.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. pretexts: Merriam-Webster
  2. pretexts: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pretexts: Vocabulary.com
  4. Pretexts, pretexts: Wordnik
  5. pretexts: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. pretexts: Wiktionary
  7. pretexts: Dictionary.com
  8. pretexts: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Pretexts: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. pretexts: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pretexts: Legal dictionary

(Note: See pretext as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pretext)

noun:  A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason; a pretense.
verb:  To employ a pretext, which involves using a false or contrived purpose for soliciting the gain of something else.
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