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dissimulation
noun as in camouflage
noun as in concealment
noun as in cover-up
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noun as in deceit
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noun as in deception
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noun as in disguise
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noun as in dissemblance
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noun as in duplicity
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noun as in equivocation
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noun as in falsehood
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noun as in guile
noun as in hypocrisy
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noun as in imposition
noun as in make believe
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noun as in mask
noun as in masquerade
noun as in pharisaism
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- affectation
- bad faith
- bigotry
- cant
- casuistry
- deceit
- deception
- dishonesty
- display
- dissembling
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- false profession
- falsity
- fraud
- glibness
- imposture
- insincerity
- irreverence
- lie
- lip service
- mockery
- pharisaicalness
- phoniness
- pietism
- quackery
- sanctimoniousness
- sanctimony
- speciousness
- tartuffery
- two-facedness
- unctuousness
noun as in phoniness
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- affectation
- bad faith
- bigotry
- cant
- casuistry
- deceit
- deception
- dishonesty
- display
- dissembling
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- false profession
- falsity
- fraud
- glibness
- imposture
- insincerity
- irreverence
- lie
- lip service
- mockery
- pharisaicalness
- pharisaism
- pietism
- quackery
- sanctimoniousness
- sanctimony
- speciousness
- tartuffery
- two-facedness
- unctuousness
noun as in pretending
noun as in pretense
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- act
- acting
- affectation
- appearance
- artifice
- claim
- deceit
- deception
- display
- double-dealing
- evasion
- excuse
- fabrication
- facade
- fakery
- falsification
- feigning
- gag
- guise
- insincerity
- invention
- make believe
- mask
- masquerade
- misrepresentation
- misstatement
- ostentation
- posing
- posturing
- pretentiousness
- routine
- ruse
- schtick
- sham
- shuffling
- simulation
- stall
- stunt
- subterfuge
- trickery
- veil
- wile
noun as in sanctimoniousness
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noun as in sanctimony
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noun as in shiftiness
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noun as in tartuffery
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- affectation
- bad faith
- bigotry
- cant
- casuistry
- deceit
- deception
- dishonesty
- display
- dissembling
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- false profession
- falsity
- fraud
- glibness
- imposture
- insincerity
- irreverence
- lie
- lip service
- mockery
- pharisaicalness
- pharisaism
- phoniness
- pietism
- quackery
- sanctimoniousness
- sanctimony
- speciousness
- two-facedness
- unctuousness
noun as in tergiversation
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noun as in two-facedness
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- affectation
- bad faith
- bigotry
- cant
- casuistry
- deceit
- deception
- dishonesty
- display
- dissembling
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- false profession
- falsity
- fraud
- glibness
- imposture
- insincerity
- irreverence
- lie
- lip service
- mockery
- pharisaicalness
- pharisaism
- phoniness
- pietism
- quackery
- sanctimoniousness
- sanctimony
- speciousness
- tartuffery
- unctuousness
noun as in wile
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Example Sentences
A senate inquiry into the affair accused the government of a "deliberate strategy" of "dissimulation".
But in fact I never found that threshold; I stayed lost in the dissimulations of motherhood, whose privatized nature meant that no honest or legitimate relation to reality could ever again be established.
For the Sankara family the trial is “a chance to heal,” he said — and to establish the realities about a young leader whose story has been blurred by years of mythmaking, dissimulation and lies.
Her dissimulation, Passon added, included having simultaneous husbands on both American coasts.
The others were more practiced at this particular dissimulation.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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