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window dressing

noun

Definition of WINDOW DRESSING

a deceptively attractive external appearance <the crime-does-not-pay moralizing is just window dressing for nasty hard-boiled stories>

Synonyms facade (also fa{ccedil}ade), veneer, window dressing

Related Words cotton candy, fluff, tinsel; fig leaf; charade, front, guise, masquerade, pose, semblance, show

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