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Excuse to do or say something that is not accurate
A pretext (adj.: pretextual) is a false reason for an action given to conceal the true motivation. A person may give a pretext because if others understood
Pretext
Type of social engineering attack
Pretexting, known in the UK as blagging, is a type of social engineering attack that involves a situation, or pretext, created by an attacker in order
Pretexting
Act or event that provokes or is used to justify war
wars". A casus belli intentionally based on inaccurate facts is known as a pretext. This section outlines a number of the more famous and/or controversial
Casus_belli
Psychological manipulation in information security
bank account details. Pretexting, also known in the UK as blagging, is the act of creating and using an invented scenario (the pretext) to engage a targeted
Social_engineering_(security)
English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)
Aldous Leonard Huxley (/ˈɔːldəs/ AWL-dəs; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books
Aldous_Huxley
2004 book by James Bamford
A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies is a 2004 book by journalist James Bamford that takes a highly critical
A_Pretext_for_War
Brief detainment by police in the United States
related to drug possession, and uses a minor traffic infringement as a pretext to stop the driver. In the case of Whren, the defense used a "would-have"
Terry_stop
American serial killer (1942–1994)
lure a victim to his home and dupe them into donning handcuffs on the pretext of demonstrating a magic trick. He would then rape and torture his captive
John_Wayne_Gacy
Country in Southeast Asia
insurgency, the United States used the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident as a pretext for increasing its contribution of military advisers. US forces became
Vietnam
American whistleblower (born 1983)
permitted temporary leave from his position at the NSA in Hawaii, on the pretext of receiving treatment for his epilepsy. In mid-May, Snowden gave an electronic
Edward_Snowden
Political philosophy emphasising social ownership of production
Socialism. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674339460. Roosa, John (2006). Pretext for Mass Murder: 30 September Movement and Suharto's Coup d'État in Indonesia
Socialism
Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945
for Sudeten Germans from the Czechoslovak government, thus providing a pretext for German military action against Czechoslovakia. In April 1938, Henlein
Adolf_Hitler
Global conflict (1939–1945)
saw as the country's right to rule Asia, staged the Mukden incident as a pretext to invade Manchuria and establish the puppet state of Manchukuo. China
World_War_II
2026 Indian Telugu language film
Kusuma, he emotionally blackmails Lavana into exhuming the grave under the pretext of a ritual, covertly stealing a portion of the skeletal remains. When
Rao_Bahadur_(film)
President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
charges of Iraqi resistance to U.N access to suspected weapons were the pretext for crises between 1997 and 1998, culminating in intensive U.S. and British
Saddam_Hussein
German diplomat (1909–1938)
1938 by a Polish Jewish teenager, Herschel Grynszpan, which was used as a pretext for Kristallnacht, "The Night of Broken Glass" on 9–10 November 1938. Historians
Ernst_vom_Rath
Emperor of Austria from 1848 to 1916
Empire Hungarian Revolutionary Army Kingdom of Hungary Russian Empire Pretext April Laws Major battles Pákozd Schwechat Mór Kápolna Battles of Komárom
Franz_Joseph_I
American sci-fi TV series (2015–2019)
Heydrich to confirm what Smith has suspected, a conspiracy to create a pretext for war with and extermination of the Japanese. Smith executes Heydrich
The Man in the High Castle (TV series)
The_Man_in_the_High_Castle_(TV_series)
Dictator of Spain from 1939 to 1975
Communist coup d'état as well a pretended state of "social chaos" became pretexts for a coup. Franco himself along with General Emilio Mola had stirred an
Francisco_Franco
Subset of artificial intelligence
Misra, Ishan; Maaten, Laurens van der (2020). Self-Supervised Learning of Pretext-Invariant Representations. 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision
Machine_learning
Species of gastropod
Amoria praetexta, common name the pretext volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. The length
Amoria_praetexta
Political party in Iran
were executed. The Iranian government used the MEK's failed invasion as a pretext for the mass execution of those "who remained steadfast in their support
People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
People's_Mojahedin_Organization_of_Iran
Revolution in Iran from 1978 to 1979
88, not 4000. The claims were believed by many, which gave Khomeini a pretext to reject any further compromise with the government. The Shah was horrified
Iranian_Revolution
King of the United Kingdom from 1820 to 1830
power with the other. Possibly using the failure of the two peers as a pretext, George immediately reappointed the Perceval administration, with Lord
George_IV
British true crime documentary
emotionally manipulated into financially supporting his lavish lifestyle on the pretext he needed the money to escape his "enemies". An Israeli man, born Shimon
The_Tinder_Swindler
President of the United States from 1829 to 1837
nullification: "the tariff was only the pretext, and disunion and southern confederacy the real object. The next pretext will be the negro, or slavery question"
Andrew_Jackson
Roman emperor from 117 to 138
Septicius Clarus, was dismissed for the same alleged reason, perhaps a pretext to remove him from office. Hadrian spent the winter of 122/123 at Tarraco
Hadrian
King of England from 1413 to 1422
such pressure could have been brought to bear. Beneath these immediate pretexts lay the old dynastic claim to the French throne first pursued by Edward
Henry_V_of_England
2023 Canadian political scandal
justifications for waging war in Ukraine, which had been started under a pretext of "denazification", among other stated reasons. Rota resigned as speaker
Yaroslav_Hunka_scandal
Indian politician (born 1957)
way Brij Bhushan used to touch their breasts and stomach sexually on the pretext of checking their breath, in a police complaint on 21 April 2023. One of
Brij_Bhushan_Sharan_Singh
1899–1901 anti-foreign uprising in China
government, at the insistence of war minister Aleksey Kuropatkin, used the pretext of Boxer activity to move some 200,000 troops led by Paul von Rennenkampf
Boxer_Rebellion
Emperor of China (1908–1912) and of Manchukuo (1934–1945)
Railroad company and blamed the warlord Marshal Zhang Xueliang. On this pretext the Kwantung Army began a general offensive with the aim of conquering
Puyi
1676 Russian military expedition
from power. The campaign ended in a Doroshenko's surrender and became a pretext for the Chyhyryn campaigns of 1677 and 1678. The Russian forces and the
Chyhyryn_campaign_(1676)
Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
status), of which Hitler granted only 12. Anthony Gottlieb writes that the pretext was that their paternal grandfather had been the bastard son of a German
Ludwig_Wittgenstein
Hostility, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews
Alexander II (r. 1855–1881). However, his assassination in 1881 served as a pretext for further repression, such as the May Laws of 1882. Konstantin Pobedonostsev
Antisemitism
1962 proposed U.S. false flag operation against American citizens
National Security Archive on 30 April 2001. Responding to a request for pretexts for military intervention by the Chief of Operations of the Cuba Project
Operation_Northwoods
President of the United States from 1913 to 1921
spaces, restrooms, and cafeterias. Many agencies used segregation as a pretext to adopt a whites-only employment policy, claiming they lacked facilities
Woodrow_Wilson
Practice and advocacy of social nudity
as documentaries of the naturist lifestyle. In fact this was largely a pretext to exploit a loophole in censorship laws restricting the exhibition of
Naturism
Corporate information leak investigation
recruited private investigators who used a spying technique known as pretexting. The pretexting involved investigators impersonating HP board members and nine
Hewlett-Packard spying scandal
Hewlett-Packard_spying_scandal
Medieval Anglo-French conflicts, 1337–1453
tension between the kings of France and England over territory; the official pretext was the interruption of the direct male line of the Capetian dynasty.[citation
Hundred_Years'_War
1944 Ailanthus-class net laying ship
to the Royal Navy under Lend-Lease in August 1944. Commissioned as HMS Pretext (Z284), she served the United Kingdom until she was returned to United
HMNZS_Endeavour_(1944)
German state from 1918 to 1933
political violence that took place during the Reichstag election campaign as a pretext, he ousted the SPD-led coalition government of Prussia in the Prussian
Weimar_Republic
Roman politician and general (83–30 BC)
all hopes of finding a peaceful solution gone, Caesar used Antony as a pretext for marching on Rome. As tribune, Antony's person was sacrosanct, so it
Mark_Antony
Telephone Records and Privacy Protection Act of 2006 (H109-4709) prohibits pretexting to buy, sell or obtain personal phone records, except when conducted by
Telephone Records and Privacy Protection Act of 2006
Telephone_Records_and_Privacy_Protection_Act_of_2006
King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1727 to 1760
Celle, both committed adultery. In 1694 the marriage was dissolved on the pretext that Sophia Dorothea had abandoned her husband. She was confined to Ahlden
George_II_of_Great_Britain
Juvenile exploratory play
originates from children using the pretend roles of doctor and patient as a pretext for such an examination. However, whether or not such role-playing is involved
Playing_doctor
Misogynistic online harassment campaign
disaffected voices in an act of continual regeneration, cycling through targets, pretexts, manifestoes, and moralisms". Polygon's Grant said that as of October 2014
Gamergate
Wooden lattice tower in Gliwice, Poland
Germany staged a false flag attack on the tower in 1939, which was used as a pretext for invading Poland, beginning World War II. The Gliwice Radio Tower is
Gliwice_Radio_Tower
Religious site in Jerusalem
Consciousness, Columbia University Press, 2010 pp. 215–16, n. 22: 'The pretext later invoked for the shootings was that the Palestinians inside the Haram
Temple_Mount
Phase since 2022 of war ongoing since 2014
that Russia knew its "unrealistic demands" would be rejected, giving it a pretext to invade. No countries bordering Russia had joined NATO since 2004. Ukraine
Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)
Russo-Ukrainian_war_(2022–present)
1756 siege during the Seven Years' War
After he became Nawab he began searching for a pretext to drive the company from his lands. The first pretext centered around Kissendass, the son of a high-ranking
Siege_of_Calcutta
Group of loosely affiliated 9/11 conspiracy theorists
Motives suggested by the movement include the use of the attacks as a pretext to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and to create opportunities to curtail
9/11_truth_movement
German state from 1525 to 1947
of the Reich deposed the Prussian government on 20 July 1932, under the pretext that the latter had lost control of public order in Prussia (during the
Prussia
1830 campaign of the French conquest of Algeria
in 1827, the so-called 'Fan Affair' ('Fly Whisk Incident'), served as a pretext to initiate a blockade against the port of Algiers. After three years of
Invasion_of_Algiers_(1830)
1989 murder of Japanese high school girl
attack in the middle of December, Furuta was beaten by the group, on the pretext that Miyano had stepped on a puddle of her urine, after which he burned
Murder_of_Junko_Furuta
1931–32 invasion of China prior to the Second Sino-Japanese War
incident, a false flag event staged by Japanese military personnel as a pretext to invade. At the war's end in February 1932, the Japanese established
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
Japanese_invasion_of_Manchuria
Country in North Africa
Tunisian international debt grew unmanageable. This was the reason or pretext for French forces to establish a protectorate in 1881. In 1869, Tunisia
Tunisia
Covert operation designed to deceive
enemy nations or terrorists, thus giving the nation that attacked itself a pretext for domestic repression or foreign military aggression (as well as to engender
False_flag
Global conflict from 1914 to 1918
volunteered to join the Russian forces and the Ottoman government used this as a pretext to issue the Tehcir Law (Law on Deportation), which authorised the deportation
World_War_I
President of Egypt from 1956 to 1970
Kandil, without Nasser's authorization, Amer used the Soviet warnings as a pretext to dispatch troops to Sinai on 14 May, and Nasser subsequently demanded
Gamal_Abdel_Nasser
German state from 1933 to 1945
March 1936 Hitler used the Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance as a pretext to order the army to march 3,000 troops into the demilitarised zone in
Nazi_Germany
South Vietnamese military officer and politician (1924–2020)
to the prevailing war policies and the ubiquitous corruption. Under the pretext that he spoke to his communist brother, Châu was accused of treason in
Trần_Ngọc_Châu
Japanese nation state from 1868 to 1947
materialism caused by Westernized democracy. This provided them with a pretext to promote militarism and weakened the Taishō Democracy. In the infamous
Empire_of_Japan
World's fair held in Brussels, Belgium
Brussels overall. Expo 58 left a deep impression on Belgium. It was also the pretext for major upheavals and works in Brussels, whose boulevards were transformed
Expo_58
Principle to separate religious and civil institutions
hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of
Separation of church and state
Separation_of_church_and_state
Ongoing conflict since 2014
an attempt to provoke the Ukrainian army to retaliate, to give Russia a pretext for invading. Ukraine's president Zelenskyy said that his military would
Russo-Ukrainian_war
1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
conflicts in the Middle East Note that scholars describe this variously as a pretext (i.e. an excuse for a pre-planned invasion) or as the actual provocation
1982_Lebanon_War
City in Aleppo Governorate, Syria
Between 1954 and 1983, many old neighborhoods were demolished under this pretext for expansion, particularly in the northern areas such as Bab al-Faraj
Aleppo
Theatre of military operations during World War II
mines left by retreating Soviet soldiers, and the Germans used this as a pretext to take revenge on the local Jews, whom the explosions were blamed on.
European theatre of World War II
European_theatre_of_World_War_II
Capital and largest city of Egypt
opera house. The immense debt resulting from Isma'il's projects provided a pretext for increasing European control, which culminated with the British invasion
Cairo
Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990
November 1962, the British declined to support the operation without a pretext, noting that Lim and the Barisan Sosialis had not broken any laws. The
Lee_Kuan_Yew
international observers suggested that the espionage claims were a baseless pretext for fulfilling a long-held ambition to reduce the Afghan population and
2025 Afghan deportation from Iran
2025_Afghan_deportation_from_Iran
German Nazi leader of the SS (1900–1945)
at the University of Bonn. When Hitler and his army chiefs asked for a pretext for the invasion of Poland in 1939, Himmler, Heydrich, and Heinrich Müller
Heinrich_Himmler
1993 Indian film
treatment for her father. He continues to come to her house often, more on the pretext of seeing her than her father. Eventually, they get married. Years pass
Maya_Memsaab
Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark (1885–1969)
starving populace and flew to Sweden to bring back medical supplies on the pretext of visiting her sister, Crown Princess Louise. She organised two shelters
Princess_Alice_of_Battenberg
French colony and later territory in Northern Africa from 1830 to 1962
also ordered a large-scale attack on Algiers between 1682 and 1683 on the pretext of assisting and rescuing enslaved Christians, usually Europeans taken
French_Algeria
American web portal
subjective biases against men. He claimed his role was eliminated as a pretext and given to a woman recently hired by editor-in-chief Megan Lieberman
Yahoo
Theories on 2001 terror attacks in U.S.
multiple acts of terrorism in U.S. cities and blame Cuba, thus providing a pretext for invasion. Time magazine contrasted events which inspired past conspiracy
9/11_conspiracy_theories
American serial killer (1960–1994)
sexually fondling a 13-year-old boy whom he had lured to his home on the pretext of posing nude for photographs. Dahmer's father hired attorney Gerald Boyle
Jeffrey_Dahmer
Roman reformer and plebeian tribune in 88 BC
kindled the deadly rivalry between Gaius Marius and Sulla, and provided the pretext for Sulla's unexpected march on Rome. Publius Sulpicius Rufus was probably
Publius_Sulpicius_Rufus
Type of hand fan, often ceremonial, notably made of feathers or animal tail hairs
during a dispute over unpaid French debts to Algeria. That insult became a pretext for the French invasion of Algeria in 1830. Chamara (fly-whisk) as regalia
Fly-whisk
1862 trial in Bombay Court
that the Maharajs in Bombay were abusing their female followers under the pretext of reenacting the love between the young Krishna and the milk maidens called
Maharaj_libel_case
Polish civilian often cited as first victim of World War II
Heinrich Himmler and his deputy, Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, as a pretext for carrying out German Führer Adolf Hitler's plan to invade Poland. A
Franciszek_Honiok
American rapper (born 1971)
her mother decided to end the situation and fled with Elliott on the pretext of taking a joyride on a local bus. In reality, the pair had found refuge
Missy_Elliott
Jurchen-led imperial dynasty of China
the Jin in 1117. At first, an envoy was sent to the Jin court under the pretext of buying horses, but in reality it was the start of negotiations between
Jin_dynasty_(1115–1234)
Assassin of Ernst vom Rath (1921–1945?)
Rath on November 7, 1938 in Paris. The Nazis used this assassination as a pretext to launch Kristallnacht, "The Night of Broken Glass", the pogrom of 9–10
Herschel_Grynszpan
19th-century Russian grand duke
brother Nicholas became tsar in 1825. The succession controversy became the pretext of the Decembrist revolt. Konstantin was known to eschew court etiquette
Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia
Grand_Duke_Konstantin_Pavlovich_of_Russia
Systematic campaign in the Ottoman Empire
Armenians expected to be killed, but if they refused, it would provide a pretext for massacres. Armenians fortified themselves in Van and repelled the Ottoman
Armenian_genocide
Holy Roman Emperor from 1519 to 1556
grandfather Ferdinand took control of all the Spanish kingdoms, under the pretext of protecting Charles's rights, which in reality he wanted to elude. Ferdinand's
Charles_V,_Holy_Roman_Emperor
Last pre-Islamic Iranian empire (224–651 AD)
(602–610) in 602, however, Khosrow II used the murder of his benefactor as a pretext to begin a new invasion, which benefited from continuing civil war in the
Sasanian_Empire
1912 treaty establishing French Morocco
gave France the right to occupy certain parts of the country with the pretext of protecting the Sultan from internal opposition, and to hold actual reins
Treaty_of_Fes
Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 to 1250
the March of Ancona and the Duchy of Spoleto. Gregory IX used this as pretext for direct military action against the emperor, and called for an unprecedented
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor
1995 film by Bryan Singer
Keaton was actually Keyser Söze: he organized the assault on the boat as a pretext for assassinating the smuggler and faking his death. Verbal confesses that
The_Usual_Suspects
1942 film by Michael Curtiz
the Germans. Afterwards, Strasser has Renault close the club on a flimsy pretext. Later, Ilsa confronts Rick in the deserted café; when he refuses to give
Casablanca_(film)
1866 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky
scheme he has devised to murder and rob an elderly pawnbroker. On the pretext of pawning a watch, he visits her apartment, but he remains unable to commit
Crime_and_Punishment
Topics referred to by the same term
Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pretense or pretence may refer to: pretext pretexting (social engineering) "Pretense" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of Stargate
Pretense
1871 revolutionary city council in France
order to incite part of the population to rise up and eventually have a pretext for crushing Paris as a rebellious force. The Paris Commune inspired other
Paris_Commune
Cow vigilante action in Una
seven members of a Dalit family were assaulted by a group of people on the pretext of cow protection in Una in Gujarat, India. The video of the incident was
2016_Una_flogging_incident
Ottoman prince
release Orhan as a challenger unless the tribute money might've provided a pretext for the siege Constantinople, although preparations for the siege had already
Orhan_Çelebi
CIA-backed deposition of Jacobo Árbenz
an hour later. In it, he stated that he was resigning to eliminate the "pretext for the invasion", and that he wished to preserve the gains of the October
1954_Guatemalan_coup_d'état
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