dissimulate
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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
"What's the matter, Happy?" he demanded; but he knew now, well enough, and he was too honest to dissimulate.
From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville
Perhaps in some way the air of indecision and anxiety was due to that expression peculiar to those afflicted with deafness whose aim it is to dissimulate their infirmity.
From Garrick's Pupil by Filon, Auguston
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