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
Everything that the garish daylight shows, which can never show them the depths of the other's heart, is a false show, an ugly delusion.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall
Illusion, il-lū′zhun, n. a playing upon: a mocking: deceptive appearance: false show: error.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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
