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maintained appearances

maintained appearances is the simple past and past participle of maintain appearances.

Meaning of maintain appearances

Verb

maintain appearances (third-person singular simple present maintains appearances, present participle maintaining appearances, simple past and past participle maintained appearances)

  1. Synonym of keep up appearances.
    • Under the guise of being “online” and capable of disseminating news instantaneously (known colloquially as “retweeting”), being active on Twitter, for media workers, gives the effect of fulfilling one’s occupational duty as well as all the parts of professional upkeep that, in the physical world...April 14 2022, Delia Cai, “Severance, the New York Times’s Twitter Guidelines, and the Forever Illusion of Work-Life Balance”, in Vanity Fair

Questions about maintained appearances

What is maintained appearances the simple past and past participle of?
Maintained appearances is the simple past and past participle of maintain appearances.

Words near maintained appearances in the dictionary

  1. maintainability
  2. maintainable
  3. maintainableness
  4. maintaine
  5. maintained
  6. maintained appearances
  7. maintained markup
  8. maintained markups
  9. maintainence
  10. maintainer
  11. maintainers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: maintained appearances (page history and authors); maintain appearances (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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