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pretexts
noun
(pre-text)
a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs
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pretexts
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guise
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pretence
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stalking-horse
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justifications
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pretenses
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excuses
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reasons
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grounds
,
arguments
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claims
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sources
,
lawsuits
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apologies
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pleas
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pretences
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casus belli
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subterfuges
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complot
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faits accomplis
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excuse
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smokescreen
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stratagems
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falsifiers
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ploys
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irredentism
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alibis
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sophistries
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calumnies
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fabrications
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conspiracies
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expedients
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falsehood
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tautologies
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grouplet
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disinformation
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barbarisms
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demagogy
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ruses
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imperialist
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provocations
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fig leaf
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sophism
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immoralities
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legitimation
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machination
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destabilisation
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canard
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logics
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ideologies
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saddam
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duplicities
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repressiveness
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occupation
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machinated
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unilateralism
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participles
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deceptions
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discords
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refutations
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despots
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judaizing
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propaganda
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tyrannies
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autocrats
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irrelevancies
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revanchist
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ulterior
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incrimination
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despotism
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tyrants
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fallacies
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delegitimation
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dictators
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impossibilities
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apparatuses
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strawman
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warmongers
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zionism
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rubric
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complicities
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zionists
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catchwords
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imposture
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oppositions
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aggressions
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turkism
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explanations
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aggressing
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discriminations
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balkanise
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treacheries
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intermeddling
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obscurantism
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rapine
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casus
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bogeymen
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euphemisms
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circumlocutions
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syllogisms
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psywar
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pretexts
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