false show
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But the false show of bravado helped propel Wallace into the governorship in 1962.
From Time Magazine Archive
Simple honesty is preferable to false show in all cases; truthfulness in utterance is always to be desired.
From Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition by Christopher Dresser
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
Everything that the garish daylight shows, which can never show them the depths of the other's heart, is a false show, an ugly delusion.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell
Lady Norah and Violet Dufaure were somewhat at cross-purposes, each preferring to talk to Stillford and endeavoring, under a false show of amity, to foist Captain Irons on to the other.
From Helena's Path by Anthony Hope
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