Pretenses

So — disguising yourself in the Darth Vader costume of the popular guy to have sex with his hot girlfriend under false pretenses is a sleazy, if not probably illegal move, but having seen the amount of crap heaped upon the nerds of Lambda Lambda Lambda by the jocks of Alpha Beta, you might forgive horn-rimmed nerd stereotype Lewis Skolnick (Robert Carradine). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Putting people into debt debt slavery/penury, especially under false pretenses, is wrong. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When multi millionaires continue to bilk ordinary working people of their nickels and dimes by asking them to give their money under false pretenses is simply deplorable. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The whole fact that we got involved in the Iraq war underfalse pretenses is enough evidence of that. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As Reason's Hit and Run commented, "leading your country to war under false pretenses is hiiiiii-larious." ❋ Unknown (2004)

(You and I apparently disagree; I think the invasion of Iraq under false pretenses is more destructive to our national credibility than receiving a blowjob in the Oval Office.) ❋ Unknown (2006)

Now that’s a fine attitude for a man who thinks invading a country and deposing its president on false pretenses is acceptable. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Unthinkingly, I have laid myself open to the charge of aiding and abetting the seal cutter in obtaining money under false pretenses, which is forbidden by Section 420 of the Indian Penal ❋ Egerton Castle (1889)

The little Eagle newspaper article has since been picked up by all kinds of military sites, because people want that fraud prosecuted under the Stolen Valor Act. Other commentators want the $300,000 annual salary returned to taxpayers, since he obtained the money by false pretenses, which is grand larceny. ❋ Unknown (2010)

(Also, separate point, but when Breitbart goes into his argument that O'Keefe wouldn't be "stupid enough to try to 'wiretap' a sitting U.S. senator in broad daylight during office hours," well, OK, but he was allegedly stupid enough to attempt to enter that office -- federal property -- in broad daylight during office hours under false pretenses, which is itself a crime.) ❋ Unknown (2010)

He was charged with obtaining money under false pretenses, which is a felony. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Church claimed that Galileo got his license to publish his book under false pretenses, which is totally false. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Yet four decades later we found ourselves fighting a war in Iraq that was launched under false pretenses and conducted by leaders who had contempt for the public and the truth. ❋ Walter F. Mondale (2010)

If there is anything that's really disturbing in all this it's the fact that it's getting the kind of play that it is under false pretenses. ❋ Mike Hegedus (2010)

Another big Breitbart setback last winter came when news broke that his ACORN protégé O'Keefe had been arrested in New Orleans while he and his buddies were dressed up as telephone repairmen and charged with entering a federal building under false pretenses while they tried to talk their way into the office of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu. ❋ Eric Boehlert (2010)

Another big Breitbart setback last winter came when news broke that his ACORN protégé O'Keefe had been arrested in New Orleans while he and his buddies were dressed up as telephone repairmen and charged with entering a federal building under false pretenses while they tried to talk their way into the office of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu. ❋ Eric Boehlert (2010)