window dressing
n 1: a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something
unpleasant [syn: facade]
2: the decoration of shop windows
WordNet (r) 2.0
110 Moby Thesaurus words for "window dressing":
acting, adjunct, adornment, affectation, anteriority, appearance,
arrangement, attitudinizing, bluff, bluffing, bold front,
brave face, brave front, cheating, color, color patterns, coloring,
deception, decor, decoration, delusion, disguise, display,
dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, elaboration,
embellishment, emblazonment, emblazonry, embroidery, facade, face,
facet, facia, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show,
falsity, feigning, feint, flourish, flower arrangement, fore,
forefront, foreground, forehand, foreland, forepart, forequarter,
foreside, foreword, four-flushing, fraud, front, front elevation,
front man, front matter, front page, front view, frontage, frontal,
frontier, frontispiece, furniture arrangement, garnish,
garnishment, garniture, gilt, gloss, head, heading, humbug,
humbuggery, illumination, imposture, lap, masquerade,
meretriciousness, obverse, ornament, ornamentation, ostentation,
outward show, playacting, pose, posing, posture, preface, prefix,
pretense, pretension, pretext, priority, proscenium, put-on,
representation, seeming, semblance, sham, show, simulacrum,
simulation, speciousness, trim, trimming, varnish, veneer
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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