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• Act as if something unpleasant or upsetting is not as bad as it really is.

  ‘he was putting a brave face on it but she knew he was shattered’

  More example sentences

  • ‘he tried to put a good face on the financial picture’

  Synonyms

  front, show, display, act, appearance, false front, facade, exterior, guise, mask, masquerade, pretence, charade, pose, illusion, smokescreen, veneer, camouflage