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
There is no pretence so difficult to maintain as the false show of genial and benevolent feeling.
From A Manual of Moral Philosophy by Andrew P. (Andrew Preston) Peabody
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
But the robbery was not gilded with this false show.
From Plutarch's Lives Volume III. by Aubrey Stewart
Covetousness likewise has much false show and glitter.
From Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by John Nicholas Lenker
