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
The army will not long look to an Assembly acting through the organ of false show and palpable imposition.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
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 A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 by Guizot, M. (François)
You do not yet know either, that ignorance and fear will be thrusting their untruth and false show into the very essentials of Religion.
From Dream Life A Fable Of The Seasons by Mitchell, Donald Grant
It was the fashion of old, when an ox was led out for sacrifice to Jupiter, to chalk the dark spots, and give the offering a false show of unblemished whiteness.
From Romola by Eliot, George
