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
The past life is 142 something to be cast aside as false show, just because the self that experienced it was not realized in it.
From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir
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)
Covetousness likewise has much false show and glitter.
From Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by Lenker, John Nicholas
How, and by what memorable feature, did last June differ from this October? and what followed, by its false show of subtlety, discredited the whole explanation.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various
