disguise
verb (used with object)
to change the appearance or guise of so as to conceal identity or mislead, as by means of deceptive garb.
disguisement
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a word derived from
disguise.
Example Sentences
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What could have been his reason for this temporary disguisement I have never been able to discover.
From Byeways in Palestine by James Finn
I have let you read in my heart, and you must have seen that I know neither disguisement nor artifice.
From Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence by Elizabeth S. Kite
And go back in what disguisement I might, there was no selling a bootlace, nor begging a crust of bread there—there, where he lived.
From Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
God has taken such care that he need take none; none, that is, which consists in disguisement, insincerity, painful hushing-up of his true, grand, initiating nature.
From The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman by Anne Burrows Gilchrist
They seem rather like figures on a Greek vase—a man and two women whom no one but myself could distinguish in their disguisement.
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Andrew Cecil Bradley
