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false front
noun as in façade
Example Sentences
Nibletts suggested our getting a patent laying-box, furnished with (what he apologised to my aunt for calling) a false front.
Mingusville consisted of the railroad station, the section-house, and a story-and-a-half "hotel" with a false front.
Red Oak slept all day behind the drab, sun-bleached, false-front buildings on both sides of the only road.
St. George found himself looking fixedly at Mrs. Hastings' false front as the only reality in the room.
Another is that so far in life I have preserved a stern and unshaken resolution not to wear a false front.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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