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 on the Web The circumstances of their lives are just window dressings. Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024 In most cases, this was window dressing—a bit of spin to create the impression the company is a market leader in the latest technologies. Naren Narendran, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024 Those connections make for nice window dressing, but they could hardly be considered foundational reasons for the hire. Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2024 And the show does its best to make the retreat’s discussions of climate change, income inequality, and the dangers of advanced technology feel like key thematic parts of the story, rather than window dressing. Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2023 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 18 Aug. 2024.

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