dissimulated

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

From Time Magazine Archive

A spasm passed across the young Count's face, telling of some racking pain, dissimulated by an effort, and his eyes fell before Oswald's astonished, questioning gaze.

From Fickle Fortune by Elisabeth Burstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)

Yet when Bolingbroke afterwards met Warburton he dissimulated: he used the language of compliment, but in a tone which claimed homage.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

She hadn't had it when she went in, and she had it when she came out; she had it there under her cloak, but dissimulated, invisibly carried, when smiling, smiling, she again faced Kate Croy.

From The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 by James, Henry

Our men dissimulated, for already they were about to despatch the flagship, for which preparations were going on apace.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 1629-30 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Robertson, James Alexander