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

But his amazing diplomatic talent enabled him to dissimulate, and smile in bland reply.

From Froth by Armando Palacio Vald?s

The thing is to play his part well, and to know when to feign and dissimulate.

From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Eug?ne Sue

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Suffocating in the fumes of their own dejection, disconcerted and terrified by the strength of the revolt, they dissimulated the rage which they felt against it.

From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Emma Goldman

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

It must not be dissimulated what very dear friends Mr. Cecil Burleigh and Miss Julia Gardiner were.

From The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax by Holme Lee

There was something in his inscrutable service that, making him almost august, gave my dissimulated eagerness the sound of a heartless compliment.

From The Sacred Fount by Henry James

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 — Volume 09 by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton