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

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

A hypochondriac by temperament, of mediocre intelligence, incapable of grasping realities, confined to abstractions, crafty and dissimulating, his prevailing note was an excessive pride which increased until his last day.

From The Psychology of Revolution by Le Bon, Gustave