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guised

  • past participle of guise.
  • past tense form of guise.

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You may believe you deserve your family’s love only when you are acting in ways they support, but real love should never be guised as fear or control.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2023

But for all the circusy bravado of the opening montage, this movie is neither trickle-down treat nor bacchanal guised as bromide, but rather an interrogation of an era defined by an obsession with wealth.

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2018

Corden approached the subject guised as a recap of the awards show.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2017

It showed an excruciatingly ill-at-ease Mr. Segel guised as Wallace circa the mid-’90s — in granny glasses and a bandanna — wearing an expression that seemed to say, “I shouldn’t be here at all.”

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2015

No sooner had Northern armies touched Southern soil than this old question, newly guised, sprang from the earth,—What shall be done with Negroes?

From The Souls of Black Folk by Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)