His wife repulsed him on the pretext that her headaches were flaring up again.

He came to my house on the pretext of seeing me.

He made up a pretext for a fight with me.

He did not come on the pretext of sickness.

He used the fact that his sleeve was caught in the brambles as a pretext to do nothing.

If you calmly look at the reply you sent to an email, you'll find that it'll have "you" all over it. While you may use the pretext that you're just working with whatever information the addressee gave you, in the end it's just all about yourself. This is wrong. Let's be a little more careful, shall we?

He fired me and offered a pretextual rationale for the firing.

Algeria supports the existence of a Western Sahara when in fact it is a pretext for Algerian soldiers to practice terrorism and blackmail on the Moroccan border.

Whereas before I had no pretext on which to give an account of my life, now I have got one.

... reason? What you're looking for is a pretext, isn't it?