false show
Example Sentences
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But the false show of bravado helped propel Wallace into the governorship in 1962.
From Time Magazine Archive
Let no false show of fame, your reason blind.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Sir Walter Scott
Would thou have me to believe, O wise and pious friend, that a false show can be better—can be more for God's glory, or man' welfare—than God's own truth?
From The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Pretence′, something pretended: appearance or show to hide reality: false show or reason: pretext: assumption: claim; Preten′dant, -ent, a pretender.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
On his arrival he found there assembled the senate and people of this perfidious nation, who, conformably to his orders, had repaired thither, seeking to deceive him by a false show of submission and devotion....
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
