dissimulate

But the Gift’s double-sided sword–ness also justifies the regime’s turning of Wakanda into an encrypted nation, a nation projecting a simulated self in order to dissimulate.

From Slate ● Feb. 20, 2018

Aspirants to public office in the US may well dissimulate, but in a wide-open cultural landscape, with only the occasional ironic outcropping, there's hardly anywhere for them to hide.

From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2013

He knew how to dissimulate his intentions so well that the Orsini themselves, through Lord Paulo, reconciled themselves with him.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

The thing is to play his part well, and to know when to feign and dissimulate.

From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Eug?ne Sue

He felt for Louis XIV. a personal enmity which he could not dissimulate, and which burst forth on two important occasions, that of the ‘regale.’ and that of the right of franchise.

From The Power Of The Popes by Pierre Claude Fran?ois Daunou

I am certain she dissimulates her affection for you with greater care than you take to multiply proofs of yours for her.

From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by William Hassell Overton

At his age a man no longer dissimulates in his own family; he became more and more thoughtful, serious, and grieved as the hour approached when he would be forced to meet his civil death.

From The Alkahest by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

Some hatred, weak and without self-confidence, or seeking the effect of surprise, is hypocritical, dissimulates, affects friendly feeling, rubs its hands over insults and awaits the opportune moment.

From The Foundations of Personality by Abraham Myerson

Monk, who combines virtue with tact, dissimulates at first, then suddenly at the head of his troops dissolves the rebel parliament, and re-establishes the king on the throne.

From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo

Other artists dissimulated their debts to French painting or let critics bury them.

From Time Magazine Archive

This degeneration is dissimulated by their well-nourished appearance, but is revealed in their increasing neuropathic tendency.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel

The limits of the place, cleverly dissimulated, were muffled in the deepest verdure.

From The Author Of Beltraffio by Henry James

So, shaken, afraid, they went back to her parents in the kitchen, and dissimulated.

From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

As for Aboulfatah, it is impossible to say how well he dissimulated.

From The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' by Julia Pardoe

I’m sure Vikram has a high IQ, but did not display good judgment in dissimulating to me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026

Given this particular movie, she presumably also lectures on “Cyrano de Bergerac” and topics like the dissimulating heroine.

From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2021

She herself was dissimulating each day, biding her time until she could just get out.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 26, 2019

On the contrary, it is the very heart of society's real unreality, capable of infinitely executing itself, and endlessly dissimulating the absence of the real.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2018

I was complete master of myself, bent on dissimulating, on telling no one of anything I had seen; determined on concealing and in burying in my heart of hearts a terrible secret.

From Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant