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synonyms for pre-texts
- apology
- approval
- argument
- basis
- confirmation
- explanation
- pretext
- rationale
- rationalization
- vindication
- absolution
- account
- acquittal
- advocacy
- answer
- apologia
- cop-out
- defense
- exculpation
- exoneration
- extenuation
- grounds
- idea
- mitigation
- palliation
- palliative
- plea
- rebuttal
- reply
- response
- sanctification
- story
- support
- validation
- warrant
- wherefore
- raison d'être
- song and dance
- whatfor
- whitewashing
- whole idea
- why and wherefore
- camouflage
- cloak
- veil
- affectation
- air
- appearance
- aspect
- beard
- blind
- concealment
- cover up
- disguise
- dissembling
- dissimulation
- domino
- facade
- front
- guise
- hood
- masquerade
- pose
- posture
- pretense
- pretext
- put on
- screen
- semblance
- show
- simulation
- veneer
- visage
- visor
- disguisement
- fig leaf
- window dressing
- action
- allegation
- apology
- argument
- claim
- explanation
- pleading
- alibi
- cause
- extenuation
- justification
- mitigation
- out
- palliation
- pretext
- rationalization
- right
- story
- vindication
- whitewash
- cop-out
- fish tale
- song and dance
- charade
- cloak
- pretext
- semblance
- veneer
- act
- acting
- affectation
- appearance
- artifice
- claim
- deceit
- deception
- display
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- evasion
- excuse
- fabrication
- facade
- fakery
- falsification
- feigning
- gag
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- insincerity
- invention
- make believe
- mask
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- misrepresentation
- misstatement
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- ambition
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- plea
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- fig leaf
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- song and dance
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- sell
- smoke
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- display
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- switch
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- scenario
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- shift
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- switch
- twist
- booby trap
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- cloak
- color
- coloring
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- exterior
- face
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- front
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- pretense
- pretext
- semblance
- show
- veil
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- disguisement
- false colors
- false front
- window dressing
- camouflage
- mantle
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- beard
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- face
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- semblance
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- fraud
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- retort
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- airtight case
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- fish story
- song and dance
- dodging
- artifice
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- elusion
- equivocation
- evasiveness
- excuse
- jive
- lie
- obliqueness
- pretext
- prevarication
- quibble
- routine
- ruse
- shift
- shirking
- shuffling
- shunning
- slip
- sophism
- sophistry
- stall
- subterfuge
- trick
- trickery
- come-off
- cop-out
- equivocating
- eschewal
- evading
- fancy footwork
- fugiviteness
- fugivity
- runaround
- stonewall
- alibi
- apology
- justification
- pretext
- rationalization
- substitute
- trick
- cleanup
- cover
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- disguise
- evasion
- expedient
- extenuation
- grounds
- jive
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- mitigation
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- regrets
- routine
- semblance
- shift
- song
- stall
- stopgap
- story
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- vindication
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- cop-out
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- fish story
- song and dance
- why and wherefore
- ruse
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- distraction
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- gambit
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- make believe
- maneuver
- play
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- pretension
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- sham
- shift
- snare
- stall
- stratagem
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- trick
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- air
- façade
- facade
- face
- presence
- aspect
- bearing
- blind
- carriage
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- cover
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- demeanor
- disguise
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- exterior
- fake
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- put on
- show
- veil
- window dressing
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- base
- bedrock
- call
- cause
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- factor
- footing
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- goods
- groundwork
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- information
- infrastructure
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- numbers
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- reason
- root
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- substratum
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- testimony
- trial
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- chapter and verse
- straight stuff
- whyfor
- camouflage
- conceal
- dress up
- obscure
- shroud
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- blanket
- coat
- cover
- curtain
- dissemble
- dissimulate
- hide
- mask
- pretext
- screen
- acquit
- condone
- defend
- exempt
- exonerate
- explain
- forgive
- indulge
- let go
- pardon
- relieve
- spare
- tolerate
- alibi
- appease
- clear
- cover
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- exculpate
- extenuate
- free
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- mitigate
- overlook
- pretext
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- release
- remit
- reprieve
- shrive
- vindicate
- whitewash
- apologize for
- bear with
- dispense from
- exempt from
- give absolution
- grant amnesty
- let off
- make allowances for
- pass over
- plead ignorance
- shrug off
- take rap for
- wink at
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antonyms for pre-texts
MOST RELEVANT
- accuse
- blame
- censure
- charge
- condemn
- damn
- hurt
- punish
- sentence
- aggravate
- hold
- incite
- irritate
- keep
- limit
- maintain
- prevent
- restrain
- reveal
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