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window dressing
noun [U] (DECEIVING) disapprovingDefinition
› things that are of no real importance and are said or done in order to make an attractive effect: Never mind the extra day's holiday, the free healthcare, and all the other window dressing in the company's offer - the point is, how much more money are we getting?Useless and futile
(Definition of window dressing noun (DECEIVING) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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SMART Thesaurus: Useless and futile
Synonyms and related words:
- a mug's game idiom
- adrift adjective
- aimless adjective
- airy-fairy adjective
- be at a loose end idiom
- flaccid adjective
- fool's errand noun
- for the hell of it idiom
- frivolous adjective
- fruitless adjective
- negate verb
- no-good adjective
- nugatory adjective
- ornamental adjective
- otiose adjective
- unrealistic adjective
- until you are blue in the face idiom
- unwieldy adjective (NOT EFFECTIVE)
- useless adjective
- vain adjective (NOT SUCCESSFUL)
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