false show
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
But the false show of bravado helped propel Wallace into the governorship in 1962.
From Time Magazine Archive
Neither of them even tried to make a false show of self-possession.
From The Record of Currupira by Abernathy, Robert
But if they are not able to fulfil their promises, and, moreover, lack many good things, is not the happiness men seek in them clearly discovered to be a false show?
From The Consolation of Philosophy by James, H. R. (Henry Rosher)
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 Jackson, Helen Hunt
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 The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore
