All 7 Uses of
pretext
in
Anna Karenina
- Seizing the first pretext, she got up, and with her light, resolute step went for her album.†
Part 1 *
- Do you understand the folly of it, that on the pretext of my being unfaithful to him," she said contemptuously, "he wants to get the benefit of my fortune."†
Part 1
- On the pretext of wanting to give some dinner to her dolls, she had asked the governess's permission to take her share of tart to the nursery, and had taken it instead to her brother.†
Part 3
- She was terrified again at this feeling, and clutched at the first pretext for doing something which might divert her thoughts from herself.†
Part 3
- She went into the dining room on the pretext of giving some directions, and spoke loudly on purpose, expecting him to come out there; but he did not come, though she heard him go to the door of his study as he parted from the chief secretary.†
Part 3
- And he was continually, on various pretexts, going out of the room, and coming in again, because he was unable to remain alone.†
Part 5
- Neither of them gave full utterance to their sense of grievance, but they considered each other in the wrong, and tried on every pretext to prove this to one another.†
Part 7
Definition:
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(pretext) a false reason presented to hide the real reason for doing something