dissimulated

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Having all got into the boat, Roldan dissimulated, saying to those who were rowing that they should row towards the land.

From The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career by Casas, Bartolom? de las

I practically lost all faith in Mrs. Besant when she dissimulated and tried to mislead the Inner Group Council on her return from her first visit to India in 1894.

From H. P. Blavatsky A Great Betrayal by Cleather, Alice Leighton

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

A dissimulated form would have been the better expression.

From An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Child, Lydia Maria Francis