dissimulate
verb (used with object)
to disguise or conceal under a false appearance; dissemble.
dissimulating
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present participleof dissimulate.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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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
In such contradiction was this sudden outburst of violence to the prudence of Richard's recent conduct, that it has sometimes been supposed that, he had been dissimulating all the time.
From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Samuel Rawson Gardiner
