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- Facade vs. façade - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
But I tried searching the Corpus of Contemporary American English and it had zero hits for "façade" so I just went with ngrams – Mr Shiny and New 安宇 Commented Nov 9, 2011 at 16:40
- Word for something being both beautiful and terrible at the same time
Of course, terrific would have worked a long time ago OED's first definition is Causing terror, terrifying; terrible, frightful; stirring, awe-inspiring; sublime, although they do say that usage is Now rare
- Whats the word to describe someone who is trying to appear dumber than . . .
What would describe someone who puts on a façade of stupidity, but is actually much smarter than they appear? I would say that this is the oppposite of pretentious I have looked all over the web and Stack and I cannot find it I was told that I once said it and that it was a noun, and that I said it was found in a book
- Term for a firm used as a public front to hide an illegal operation
Front (in sense 3, “A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group [eg] Officially it's a dry-cleaning shop, but everyone knows it's a front for the mafia”, or sense 10, “An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself”) or front organization (“any entity set up by and controlled by another organization, such as
- A word for realising the insignificance of human life against the scale . . .
The tiny globe would continue to turn, serenely ignoring its subdivisions, presenting a unified façade that would cry out for unified understanding, for homogeneous treatment The earth must become as it appears: blue and white, not capitalist or Communist; blue and white, not rich or poor; blue and white, not envious or envied ~Michael
- The British equivalent of X objects in a trenchcoat
Since then this meme has been extended to (2 or 3) children kids, or animals, or some kind of creatures in a trenchcoat to mean disguise, that which one is (hiding) underneath a façade For example, the expression a pile of rats in a trenchcoat appeared with the movie Heartbreak High, in which a character says about herself:
- literature - What is the correct term to describe literary works that . . .
French for novel with a key, is a novel about real life, overlaid with a façade of fiction The fictitious names in the novel represent real people, and the "key" is the relationship between the nonfiction and the fiction (Wiki)
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