dissimulating
/dih-sim-yuh-leyt/US // dɪˈsɪm yəˌleɪt //UK // (dɪˈsɪmjʊˌleɪt) //
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v.有主动词 verb
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dis·sim·u·lat·ed, dis·sim·u·lat·ing.
- : to disguise or conceal under a false appearance; dissemble: to dissimulate one's true feelings about a rival.
v.无主动词 verb
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dis·sim·u·lat·ed, dis·sim·u·lat·ing.
- : to conceal one's true motives, thoughts, etc., by some pretense; speak or act hypocritically.
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Examples
He was moved by the abuses of the Roman Church, and he was much too sincere to dissimulate publicly what he confessed privately.
This is, then, what Bond artifice effected in the absence of actual cause and in order to dissimulate its own nefarious objects.
He sought to dissimulate with her, but at last he confessed, 'I was truly this morning the victim of a sorcery.'
This archbishop has a lively genius, artful and supple, which can flatter and dissimulate, if ever any could.
The Indian looked at him for some moments with an astonishment that he did not seek to dissimulate.
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