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n. - An artful or simulated semblance.

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  • Under the guise of friendship he betrayed them
  • Shall I creep to thy white feet, in guise of a humble lover?
  • Here, he adopts the thin guise of a reviewer who is not Walt Whitman, and lays out the differences between
  • NO on 2 (would introduce homophobic language into state constitution in guise of ‘marriage protection’)
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  • Some "guys" (more than one boy or man) like to take on the "guise" (assumed appearance) of being very athletic.
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