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window-dressing

noun as in window dressing

noun as in decorative exhibition

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The city tried addressing that by hosting community workshops to collect input in October 2019 – but with ahead of a December Council hearing, it struck many as window dressing, not a genuine opportunity to provide feedback.

Of course, there’s a chance this could all be window dressing given how often brand purpose tends to look like propaganda.

From Digiday

It’s pulp—very good pulp—and its modest achievement is making heroes out of characters too often reduced to window dressing.

From Time

One thing we’ve observed is that a remarkable amount of video is just audio with window dressing.

To her it was just empty window dressing that would do little practical good for Lou.

But as enjoyable as this sort of literary trainspotting can be, I also consider it window dressing.

And it was in the same decade that the idea of window dressing as a career first intrigued Hoey.

Netanyahu's party primaries denied him centrist window-dressing (i.e., Dan Meridor).

The action scenes, to me, just seem like macho window dressing around this central source of paranoia.

I realize that the question was window-dressing, but my answer is quite serious.

Perhaps those disks are only window dressing, and they can work without them.

But he was determined to run on the platform, and for him, he later said, a platform was not a window dressing.

On window-dressing days he was up and down the street half the morning.

This present show of examining them was what he called legal window-dressing.

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On this page you'll find 109 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to window-dressing, such as: affectation, array, boast, boasting, brag, and braggadocio.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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