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
Given to false show; assuming or pretending to posses what is not natural or real.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
Neither of them even tried to make a false show of self-possession.
From The Record of Currupira by Robert Abernathy
In order to put on a false show of erudition, you lug into your last article a familiar Latin sentence.
From Hoosier Mosaics by Maurice Thompson
There is no pretence so difficult to maintain as the false show of genial and benevolent feeling.
From A Manual of Moral Philosophy by Andrew P. (Andrew Preston) Peabody
