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
How can you be so foolish, and believe in such false show?
From The Home by Mary (Mary Botham) Howitt
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 Donald Grant Mitchell
Is he so sly as to try to keep up a false show before his brother even?
From Landolin by Berthold Auerbach
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
