dissimulate

But the Gift’s double-sided sword–ness also justifies the regime’s turning of Wakanda into an encrypted nation, a nation projecting a simulated self in order to dissimulate.

From Slate ● Feb. 20, 2018

Aspirants to public office in the US may well dissimulate, but in a wide-open cultural landscape, with only the occasional ironic outcropping, there's hardly anywhere for them to hide.

From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2013

He knew how to dissimulate his intentions so well that the Orsini themselves, through Lord Paulo, reconciled themselves with him.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

I must confess," I said to myself, "that they can dissimulate well!

From Annouchka A Tale by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

The count looked at Bijou with an admiration which he did not attempt to dissimulate, as he answered emphatically: "You an old maid? oh, never in the world, never!"

From Bijou by Gyp

I am certain she dissimulates her affection for you with greater care than you take to multiply proofs of yours for her.

From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by William Hassell Overton

At his age a man no longer dissimulates in his own family; he became more and more thoughtful, serious, and grieved as the hour approached when he would be forced to meet his civil death.

From The Alkahest by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

Some hatred, weak and without self-confidence, or seeking the effect of surprise, is hypocritical, dissimulates, affects friendly feeling, rubs its hands over insults and awaits the opportune moment.

From The Foundations of Personality by Abraham Myerson

Monk, who combines virtue with tact, dissimulates at first, then suddenly at the head of his troops dissolves the rebel parliament, and re-establishes the king on the throne.

From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Unfortunately, the nature of his delirium was not very evident, and he dissimulated so well that the jurists would not admit his irresponsibility, in spite of my medical certificate.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel

Since her fifteenth year this desire had been fixed, calculating design, dissimulated under apparent recklessness.

From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Vicente Blasco Ib??ez

His trick may be ingenious and carefully dissimulated, but it is certainly merely a trick.

From Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research by Michael Sage

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 Isaac Disraeli

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

I saw no evidence that Diana was lying, dissimulating or faking.

From Wild Justice by Ruth M. Sprague