dissimulates
- present tense form of dissimulate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Chou quickly cuts to the heart of matters, drops the impractical, dissimulates when necessary and never gambles�without four aces.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am certain she dissimulates her affection for you with greater care than you take to multiply proofs of yours for her.
From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by Overton, William Hassell
Some hatred, weak and without self-confidence, or seeking the effect of surprise, is hypocritical, dissimulates, affects friendly feeling, rubs its hands over insults and awaits the opportune moment.
From The Foundations of Personality by Myerson, Abraham
At his age a man no longer dissimulates in his own family; he became more and more thoughtful, serious, and grieved as the hour approached when he would be forced to meet his civil death.
From The Alkahest by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
And he dissimulates despair, ��� And anger, and suprise; ��� The while white daisies stare —And stir not—with their yellow eyes.
From Silverpoints by Gray, John
