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seemingly good, but without merit
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insincere, but seemingly good
or:
insincere, but seemingly good
- But the Puritan soldier and magistrate was not a man to be turned aside from his well-considered scheme, either by dread of the wizard's ghost, or by flimsy sentimentalities of any kind, however specious.Chapter 1 — The Old Pyncheon Family (17% in)
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