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
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
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 M. (François) Guizot
Only that traitor which we call judgment had been keeping up a false show of resolute opinion, just to lure the beguiled heart farther and farther on in a mistaken security.
From Mercy Philbrick's Choice by Helen Hunt Jackson
A thousand times since that day, in the midst of all this false show and glitter, my mind has gone back to that wonderful girl.
From Ann Boyd by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben
