Definition of Pretexting

1. Verb. (present participle of pretext) ¹

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Definition of Pretexting

1. pretext [v] - See also: pretext

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pretexting

preterperfects
preterpluperfect
preterpluperfects
preterrestrial
pretertiary
pretest
pretested
pretesting
pretests
pretex
pretexed
pretexes
pretexing
pretext
pretexted
pretexting (current term)
pretexts
pretextual
pretextuality
pretextually
pretexture
pretextures
prethe
pretheater
pretheatre
pretheoretical
pretheoretically
prethermalized
prethrombotic
pretibial

Literary usage of Pretexting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Identity Theft: Is There Another You? : Joint Hearing Before the by United States, Congress, Committee on Commerce, House (1999)
"V. pretexting Related to identity theft is a practice known in the ... pretexting involves obtaining confidential consumer information under false pretenses ..."

2. Louis the Fourteenth, and the Court of France in the Seventeenth Century by Pardoe (Julia) (1847)
"with which he was regarded by a great proportion of the nation, and by a strong party at court, was in the habit of perpetually pretexting his weak health, ..."

3. Louis the Fourteenth, and the Court of France in the Seventeenth Century by Pardoe (Julia) (1847)
"with which he was regarded by a great proportion of the nation, and by a strong party at court, was in the habit of perpetually pretexting his weak health, ..."

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