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window dressing

noun as in decorative exhibition

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To her it was just empty window dressing that would do little practical good for Lou.

But as enjoyable as this sort of literary trainspotting can be, I also consider it window dressing.

And it was in the same decade that the idea of window dressing as a career first intrigued Hoey.

Netanyahu's party primaries denied him centrist window-dressing (i.e., Dan Meridor).

The action scenes, to me, just seem like macho window dressing around this central source of paranoia.

I realize that the question was window-dressing, but my answer is quite serious.

Perhaps those disks are only window dressing, and they can work without them.

But he was determined to run on the platform, and for him, he later said, a platform was not a window dressing.

On window-dressing days he was up and down the street half the morning.

This present show of examining them was what he called legal window-dressing.

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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to window dressing, such as: façade, facade, false front, front, showmanship, and store window display.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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