window dressing
the art, act, or technique of trimming the display windows of a store.
misrepresentation of something, so as to give a favorable impression: The company's list of assets included a great deal of window dressing.
Origin of window dressing
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How to use window dressing in a sentence
To her it was just empty window dressing that would do little practical good for Lou.
The Stacks: The Day Lou Gehrig Delivered Baseball’s Gettysburg Address | Ray Robinson | July 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut as enjoyable as this sort of literary trainspotting can be, I also consider it window dressing.
‘True Detective’ Finale Review: Close to Perfection | Andrew Romano | March 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd 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.
The Syndic | C.M. KornbluthPerhaps those disks are only window dressing, and they can work without them.
Storm Over Warlock | Andre NortonBut he was determined to run on the platform, and for him, he later said, a platform was not a window dressing.
Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 | Morris J. MacGregor, Jr.On window-dressing days he was up and down the street half the morning.
Mrs. Thompson | William Babington MaxwellThis present show of examining them was what he called legal window-dressing.
The Trial of Callista Blake | Edgar Pangborn
British Dictionary definitions for window-dressing
the ornamentation of shop windows, designed to attract customers
the pleasant, showy, or false aspect of an idea, policy, etc, which is stressed to conceal the real or unpleasant nature; façade
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