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
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
Only that traitor which we call judgment had been keeping up a false show of resolute opinion, just to lure the beguiled heart farther and farther on in a mistaken security.
From Mercy Philbrick's Choice by Helen Hunt Jackson
You do not yet know either, that ignorance and fear will be thrusting their untruth and false show into the very essentials of Religion.
From Dream Life A Fable Of The Seasons by Donald Grant Mitchell
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
