window dressing

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

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Recent Examples of window dressing The contest began with a whole lot of entertaining window dressing (including a really cool block window frame that players had to build and then throw sandbags through) before ending in a puzzle that all three teams essentially started simultaneously. Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2024 This means that anything that the airlines agree to will mostly be window dressing and, eventually, will be circumvented with new rules and limitations. Sheldon H. Jacobson, The Mercury News, 8 Oct. 2024 Without a direct infusion of capital into the hands of buyers, like a down payment for a home, these stocks are all window dressing. Jim Cramer, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2024 On top of being woefully miscast as the stoic soldier Roland, Hart was simply window dressing. Ash Parrish, The Verge, 30 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for window dressing 

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“Window dressing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/window%20dressing. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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