In a pretextual manner.

The quality of being pretextual.

Having a false, contrived or assumed purpose; characterized by pretense.

Before the existence of a text.

plural of pretextuality

Synonym of pretextual (“false or contrived”)

plural of pretextual stop

(US) The stopping by police of a motor vehicle in the case of a minor infringement of the law, in order to investigate other suspected criminal activity.