pretext lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. "he kept finding excuses to stay" "every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job" "his transparent self-justification was unacceptable"
• an artful or simulated semblance "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"
• something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason