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adj. - Concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive.

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  • The barbarous and dissimulating Louis XI. had a firm faith in the cross of St. Louis.
  • Putting it nega'tively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.
  • Now the BBC is a byword for cheating, lying, deceiving, dissimulating, fibbing and brute bias.
  • They are all dissimulating against one another, and each thinks that he they are all men is smarter than the rest.
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