Terrence Howard plays a music mogul in a new series on Fox. 1  CHICAGO â In the presidential suite of a Hilton hotel, above a ballroom full of extras waiting to shoot a lavish party scene, sat the two lead actors of âEmpire,â a new Fox series about a feuding entertainment-industry family.
Define pretext: a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs â pretext in a sentence a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairsâ¦
The practice of obtaining customer call records by posing as the customer is known as pretexting. â associated press, WIRED, Cingular Sues PI for Pretexting, 29 Sep. 2006 These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'pretexting.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.