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
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
He told them that if he were ruler over the land every man should have all that he wanted, and deceived many by a false show of friendship.
From Child's Story of the Bible by Mary A. (Mary Artemisia) Lathbury
Given to false show; assuming or pretending to posses what is not natural or real.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
The Venetian Republic, now in its last days of power, made a brave if false show upon London streets in those times.
From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Donald G. Mitchell
