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Noun: window dressing  'win-dow'dre-sing
  1. A showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant
    - facade
     
  2. The decoration of shop windows
Verb: window-dress
  1. Make something appear superficially attractive
    "The researcher tried to window-dress the uninteresting data";
    - dress up

Type of: beautify, deceit, deception, decoration, embellish, fancify, misrepresentation, prettify

Encyclopedia: Window dressing

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