dissimulate
verb (used with object)
to disguise or conceal under a false appearance; dissemble.
dissimulated
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past participleof dissimulate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof dissimulate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
dissimulateverb (used with object)to disguise or conceal under a false appearance; dissemble.
Example Sentences
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Other artists dissimulated their debts to French painting or let critics bury them.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Alice Leighton Cleather
So, shaken, afraid, they went back to her parents in the kitchen, and dissimulated.
From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Yet when Bolingbroke afterwards met Warburton he dissimulated: he used the language of compliment, but in a tone which claimed homage.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
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
