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 Vicar's body stretched tight the seams of his black coat and kept up, at fifty-seven, a false show of muscular energy.
From The Three Sisters by Sinclair, May
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
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 A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 by Guizot, M. (François)
Covetousness likewise has much false show and glitter.
From Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by Lenker, John Nicholas
