window dressingnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈwɪn.dəʊ ˌdres.ɪŋ/us/ˈwɪn.doʊ ˌdres.ɪŋ/window dressing noun [ U ] (SHOPS)
the skill of decorating shop windows and arranging goods in them so that they look attractive to people going past
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Decorating or making something attractive
- accessorize
- adorn
- adornment
- beautify
- bedeck
- edged
- embellish
- festoon
- flatter
- flock
- garland
- glam
- ornament
- ornamentation
- ornate
- pimp
- prettify
- titivate
- twiddly
- zhuzh
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window dressing noun [ U ] (DECEIVING)
disapproving things that are of no real importance and are said or done in order to make an attractive effect:
How many of the candidate's policies are real intentions, and how many are just window dressing?
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Useless and futile
- a mug's game idiom
- adrift
- aimless
- airy-fairy
- be at a loose end idiom
- flaccid
- fool's errand
- for the hell of it idiom
- frivolous
- fruitless
- moon around
- motiveless
- negate
- no good idiom
- nugatory
- unwieldy
- use
- useless
- vain
- vainly
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