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
Covetousness likewise has much false show and glitter.
From Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by John Nicholas Lenker
I walked to the farthest window and stood a long time gazing pensively out; I wished to be away from that false show.
From Ruggles of Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson
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 Edmund Burke
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
