dissimulating

Example Sentences

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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

Simply wishing Weinstein away would be too easy; it would also be in keeping with the industry’s history of erasing its wrongs with plastic smiles and dissimulating public relations.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2020

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

"Sister, remember one thing: sometimes it is by stifling or rather by dissimulating our suffering that we show most honor to the dead."

From Marguerite de Valois by Dumas père, Alexandre