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
That the People, deceived by a false show of advantage, often desire what would be their ruin; and that large hopes and brave promises easily move them LIV.
From Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Ninian Hill Thomson
Wouldst thou have me to believe, O wise and pious friend, that a false show can be better—can be more for God's glory, or man's welfare—than God's own truth?
From The Scarlet Letter by Mary Hallock Foote
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 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
Neither of them even tried to make a false show of self-possession.
From The Record of Currupira by Robert Abernathy
