pretextual
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.24 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""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.""
- "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)."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more pretextual (comparative)
most pretextual (superlative)