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
The army will not long look to an Assembly acting through the organ of false show and palpable imposition.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
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 Mitchell, Donald Grant
Least of all will he desire to contemplate the vices of men and disparage men, or to delight in a false show of liberty.
From The Philosophy of Spinoza by Ratner, Joseph
Is he so sly as to try to keep up a false show before his brother even?
From Landolin by Auerbach, Berthold
