pretextual

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Having a false, contrived or assumed purpose; characterized by pretense.
    — "If you're accused of profiling or pretextual stops, you can bring your daily logbook to court and document that pulling over motorists for 'stickler' reasons is part of your customary pattern," Remsberg writes, "not a glaring exception conveniently dusted off in the defendant's case."
  2. Before the existence of a text. not-comparable
    — They maintained that while historical critics sought to get behind the text to its pretextual and early textual origins (a “diachronic” approach), literary critics concentrated on the final product, the text as it now stands (a “synchronic” approach).

词形变化

more pretextual comparative most pretextual superlative

词源

词源 1
From pretext + -ual.
词源 2
From pre- + textual.
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