Sometimes she sent me over to check up on him under the pretense of bringing him medicine.

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Such half-truths are a pernicious way of lying because the whole truth is being hidden under a pretense of honesty.

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Levy wrote a lengthy article in the New York Times about how Russian security services arrested members of an environmental group under the pretense that they were using pirated Microsoft software.

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