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
It was the fashion of old, when an ox was led out for sacrifice to Jupiter, to chalk the dark spots, and give the offering a false show of unblemished whiteness.
From Romola by George Eliot
I walked to the farthest window and stood a long time gazing pensively out; I wished to be away from that false show.
From Ruggles of Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson
Given to false show; assuming or pretending to posses what is not natural or real.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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
