semblance
noun
Origin of semblance
Synonyms for semblance
Related Words for semblance
pretense, veneer, bearing, figure, similarity, feel, image, aspect, facade, air, simulacrum, resemblance, mood, mien, show, affinity, analogy, similitude, form, showingExamples from the Web for semblance
Contemporary Examples of semblance
And any semblance of normality that had previously existed seemed to have evaporated.
Still, amid the uncertainty the residents of Bab al-Salameh do their best to carve a semblance of order into their lives.
Millions of Refugees from Syria’s War Are Clinging to Life In Toxic ConditionsChristopher Looney
April 14, 2014
And it was clear we would not even maintain a semblance of friendship.
It took months, she said, for any semblance of normality to take root.
First, the Neesonesque action hero must convey some semblance of hard-earned depth, which helps older viewers identify.
Historical Examples of semblance
The lawyer, therefore, leaned forward with a semblance of frank eagerness.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
It was merely a semblance, which effaced itself; the vanishing of an illusion.
The DreamEmile Zola
The yards, taken as a whole, have some semblance to a real garden.
The Mystery of Murray DavenportRobert Neilson Stephens
We shall have him,' he cried, ridding himself of the semblance as hastily as he had assumed it.
Barnaby RudgeCharles Dickens
The semblance of a trial followed; he was condemned and transported to Cayenne.
A Zola DictionaryJ. G. Patterson