semblance

an insubstantial semblance

bear the semblance of an angel

a feeble semblance of sth.

not a semblance of truth to the story.

Her semblance of anger frightened the children.

it bears some semblance to the thing I have in mind.

At least put forth a semblance of effort when you scrub the floor.

By now any semblance of normality had disappeared.

He tried to restore some semblance of normality to their home life.

she tried to put her shattered thoughts into some semblance of order.

she tried to force her thoughts back into some semblance of order.

the holly, providently planted about the house, to cheat winter of its dreariness, and to throw in a semblance of green summer to cheer the fireside;