dissimulative arts. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I'm willing to assume that non-churchgoers find this dissimulative. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
The foreign journals, however, have so much in them that is dissimulative and latent, they require more care and discernment. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862] Reference
Unless one is truly talented in the dissimulative arts (or alternatively, truly a sociopath), this is something that cannot, ultimately, be faked (or at least not for long). From Wordnik.com. [Ferule & Fescue] Reference
Often on the front-line of such dissimulative activities, this arguably qualifies a trained private investigator to be in the elite in understanding human behaviour, particularly when there is reasonable cause for suspicion. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
Greenberg's subject is taboo: children in pain, the Paul Kopeikin Gallery's press release confides, but while Kopeikin rightly senses that Greenberg is encroaching on a taboo, his interpretation of that taboo is dissimulative to the point of absurdity. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
In true lefty dissimulative fashion the Ha'aretz article at first refers to Biden's appearance in Israel as a "friendly visit.". From Wordnik.com. [Northeast Intelligence Network] Reference
What Louis, always dissimulative, feigned to be an act of gracious homage to dead generosity was in truth an act of defiant and safe self-assertion. From Wordnik.com. [The Duke's Motto A Melodrama] Reference
They were extremely good natured young men; they were more observant than they appeared; in a sort of inarticulate, accidentally dissimulative fashion, they were highly appreciative. From Wordnik.com. [An International Episode] Reference
We seize our property by an avid instinct wherever we find it, and I must have kept seizing mine at the absurdest little rate, and all by this deeply dissimulative process of taking in, through the whole succession of those summer days. From Wordnik.com. [A Small Boy and Others] Reference
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