dissimulated

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 James, Henry

I practically lost all faith in Mrs. Besant when she dissimulated and tried to mislead the Inner Group Council on her return from her first visit to India in 1894.

From H. P. Blavatsky A Great Betrayal by Cleather, Alice Leighton

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

Thus had come about that good understanding, that sense of proprietorship definite on the part of the one, dissimulated, yet tangible and existent, on that of the other, which reigned between them.

From Fordham's Feud by Mitford, Bertram