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dissimulated

  • past participle
    of dissimulate.
    dissimulate
    verb (used with object)
    to disguise or conceal under a false appearance; dissemble.
  • past tense form
    of dissimulate.
    dissimulate
    verb (used with object)
    to disguise or conceal under a false appearance; dissemble.

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Since her fifteenth year this desire had been fixed, calculating design, dissimulated under apparent recklessness.

From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Vicente Blasco Ib??ez

They had spent the day fishing, and were returning to their houses, gazing with ill dissimulated pride at their baskets in which writhed and wriggled barbels and eels.

From Sónnica by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

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 Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney

Our men dissimulated, for already they were about to despatch the flagship, for which preparations were going on apace.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 1629-30 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 James Alexander Robertson