Synonyms of window dressing

window dressing

noun

as in facade

a deceptively attractive external appearance

the crime-does-not-pay moralizing is just window dressing for nasty hard-boiled stories

Synonyms & Similar Words

• facade
• gloss
• veneer
• cotton candy
• fig leaf
• pose
• tinsel
• front
• show
• charade
• masquerade
• fluff
• semblance
• guise

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of window dressing

That’s mere window dressing, however, for the series’ most death-defying and thrill-inducing installment to date. — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Aug. 2026

The scenarios were nothing more than window dressing—meant to evoke the chaotic night raids that would be our mission downrange. — Will MacKin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026

Sayeh believes the war has essentially destroyed what was left of the clerical establishment’s legitimacy and removed any window dressing suggesting the country wasn’t a de facto military dictatorship. — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 21 June 2026

But all of that will just be window dressing. — Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 11 June 2026