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maintains appearances

maintains appearances is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 maintains appearances

What is maintains appearances the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Maintains appearances is the third-person singular simple present indicative of maintain appearances.

Words near maintains appearances in the dictionary

  1. maintaining appearances
  2. maintainment
  3. maintainor
  4. maintainors
  5. maintains
  6. maintains appearances
  7. maintenance
  8. maintenance hole
  9. maintenance holes
  10. maintenance medicine
  11. maintenance window

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