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
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
How, and by what memorable feature, did last June differ from this October? and what followed, by its false show of subtlety, discredited the whole explanation.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various
Illusion, il-lū′zhun, n. a playing upon: a mocking: deceptive appearance: false show: error.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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 The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore
