English-Finnish translations for ulterior motive

taka-ajatusKuten yleensä, tässäkin on taustalla taka-ajatus: katastrofiapu aiotaan näköjään politisoida. As usual, there is an ulterior motive at work here: it appears that disaster relief is to be politicised. Nyt hänen sananvalinnassaan saattoi kuitenkin vaihteeksi olla taka-ajatus, ja ehkäpä hän halusi tehdä elämäni vaikeaksi. It could well be, though, that, for a change, he had an ulterior motive for the form of words he had drafted and wanted to make my life difficult.

An alternative or extrinsic reason for doing something, especially when concealed or when differing from the stated or apparent reason

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