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dissimulating

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I’m sure Vikram has a high IQ, but did not display good judgment in dissimulating to me.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

Given this particular movie, she presumably also lectures on “Cyrano de Bergerac” and topics like the dissimulating heroine.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2021

She herself was dissimulating each day, biding her time until she could just get out.

From The Guardian • Feb. 26, 2019

On the contrary, it is the very heart of society's real unreality, capable of infinitely executing itself, and endlessly dissimulating the absence of the real.

From Salon • Jul. 15, 2018

Serene eyes announce a tranquil soul; wild eyes indicate a restless mind; fiery eyes pourtray a choleric, sanguine temperament; fickle or inconstant eyes give room to suspect a soul either alarmed or dissimulating.

From The System of Nature, Volume 1 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'