dissimulated

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

From Time Magazine Archive

I dissimulated my exultation, swore loyalty to my patron's honoured mother, and showed her the portrait of her son, with which she was greatly pleased.

From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams)

So, shaken, afraid, they went back to her parents in the kitchen, and dissimulated.

From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Hitherto Masamune had dissimulated for reasons of state, hoping that he would be allowed to send one ship from his kingdoms to Nueva España, where he had large interests.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55 1621-1624 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 Blair, Emma Helen

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 Forel, Auguste