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window dressing
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun window dressing has 2 senses
- window dressing(n = noun.communication) facade - a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant; Array is a kind of deceit, deception, misrepresentation
- window dressing(n = noun.act) Array - the decoration of shop windows; Array is a kind of decoration
THESAURUS
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
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