false show

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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

It was the fashion of old, when an ox was led out for sacrifice to Jupiter, to chalk the dark spots and give the offering a false show of unblemished whiteness.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore

I could not choose but think that the Evil One had deceived me with a false show, yet, however hard I rubbed my eyes, rye it was and rye it remained.

From Mary Schweidler, the amber witch : the most interesting trial for witchcraft ever known, printed from an imperfect manuscript by her father, Abraham Schweidler, the pastor of Coserow in the island of Usedom / edited by W. Meinhold ; translated from the German by Lady Duff Gordon. by Duff Gordon, Lucie, Lady

Covetousness likewise has much false show and glitter.

From Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by Lenker, John Nicholas