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
Given to false show; assuming or pretending to posses what is not natural or real.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
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
But the robbery was not gilded with this false show.
From Plutarch's Lives Volume III. by Stewart, Aubrey
On his arrival he found there assembled the senate and people of this perfidious nation, who, conformably to his orders, had repaired thither, seeking to deceive him by a false show of submission and devotion.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 by Guizot, M. (François)
