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

And Georgia, now that her evil genius was gone, remembering her husband's look, tried to smile and talk cheerfully with the rest, but, as she said herself, she had not yet learned to dissimulate.

From The Actress' Daughter A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

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

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

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

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

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

Everyday influences, even the smallest and most dissimulated, are often the most efficacious.

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

Nevertheless the trait which we have just described is nearly always found at the bottom of all true love in woman, however much it may be veiled, dissimulated or conquered.

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

The Executive Council dissimulated neither its fears nor embarrassment.

From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Eug?ne Sue

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

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

And then, with that wondrous, if somewhat too restless and over-refining energy which belonged to him, Richard rapidly detailed the scheme of his profound and dissimulating policy.

From The Last of the Barons — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton