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false show — Synonyms and related words: Prospero, acting, affectation, affectedness, airiness, airs, airs and graces, appearance, artificiality, attitudinizing, bluff, bluffing, cheating, color, coloring, deception, delusion, delusiveness, disguise,… … Moby Thesaurus
make a false show of — index feign Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
show — Synonyms and related words: Grand Guignol, Passion play, Prospero, Tom show, accompany, accord, account for, acting, advertise, affect, affectation, affectedness, afford, afford proof of, air, airiness, airs, airs and graces, alibi, allege,… … Moby Thesaurus
false front — Synonyms and related words: acting, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, anteriority, appearance, artificiality, attitudinizing, blazon, bluff, bluffing, bold front, brave face, brave front, bravura, brilliancy, camouflage, cheating … Moby Thesaurus
False advertising — or deceptive advertising is the use of false or misleading statements in advertising. As advertising has the potential to persuade people into commercial transactions that they might otherwise avoid, many governments around the world use… … Wikipedia
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False light — is a legal term that refers to a tort concerning privacy that is similar to the tort of defamation. The privacy laws in the United States include a non public person s right to privacy from publicity which puts them in a false light to the… … Wikipedia
false imprisonment — n: the tort of intentionally restraining another by physical force or the threat of physical force without privilege or authority see also false arrest at arrest Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 … Law dictionary
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False brinelling — is damage caused by fretting corrosion that causes imprints that look similar to brinelling, but are caused by a different mechanism.The basic cause of false brinelling is that lubricant is pushed out of a loaded region. Without lubricant, wear… … Wikipedia
