Noun: window dressing 'win-dow'dre-sing
- The decoration of shop windows
"The store's creative window dressing attracted many passersby"
- A showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant
"The company's charitable donations were just a window dressing to hide their unethical business practices";
- facade
- Make something appear superficially attractive
"The researcher tried to window-dress the uninteresting data";
- dress up
Type of: beautify, deceit, deception, decoration, fancify, misrepresentation, prettify
Encyclopedia: Window dressing