tokenism, posturing, charade, wishful thinking, smokescreen, sideshow, merely, meaningless, gimmick, perfunctory, cosmetic, politicking, sham, fig leaf, eyewash, gamesmanship, superficial, fluff, puffery, ploy, rubber stamping, theatrics, purely, pandering, formality, kabuki, legerdemain, gimmickry, cynical, rubber stamp, superfluous, insincere, busywork, sleight, red herring, placation, jawboning, prettying, underhandedness, overdone, pork barreling, tidying, unexciting, farce, shameless, unseemliness, substantive, insubstantial, subterfuge, vacuous, potemkin village, ado, copout, showboating, pretense, goosing, nonsense, overkill, platitudes, kidology, illusory, ineffectual, crass, dull, cavilling, illusionary, farcical, sophistry, nitpicking, snakeoil, chicanery, constitutionalize, balderdash, unimportant, opportunism, unenlightening, halfhearted, obfuscating, illusion, hokum, terminological, ruse, anticlimactic, contrivance, lame duck, pump priming, carping, artifice, convoluting, palliative, agreeability, rather, hypocritical, jugglery, dishonest, doublespeak, disingenuous, burnish, pointless, weasel words, potemkin, speechifying

deceit, deception, decoration, misrepresentation

facade