False show

  • 1false show — index histrionics, pretense (ostentation), pretense (pretext), pretext, role, sham Burton s Legal …

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  • 2false 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,… …

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  • 3make a false show of — index feign Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 4show — 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,… …

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  • 5false 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 …

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  • 6False 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… …

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  • 7False Decretals — • A name given to certain apocryphal papal letters contained in a collection of canon laws composed about the middle of the ninth century by an author who uses the pseudonym of Isidore Mercator, in the opening preface to the collection Catholic… …

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  • 8False 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… …

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  • 9false 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 …

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  • 10False imprisonment — is a tort, and possibly a crime, wherein a person is intentionally confined without legal authority.ElementsThe elements of the tort are: * Intent to confine another person against their will. In Australia, this element will be fulfilled if the… …

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