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
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 Hope, Anthony
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)
That the People, deceived by a false show of advantage, often desire what would be their ruin; and that large hopes and brave promises easily move them LIV.
From Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Thomson, Ninian Hill
He told them that if he were ruler over the land every man should have all that he wanted, and deceived many by a false show of friendship.
From Child's Story of the Bible by Lathbury, Mary A. (Mary Artemisia)
