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Meanings of dissimulating in English

Dissembling.

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        Usage of dissimulating in English
        1
        Self-control and cool-headedness are above all necessary to aid in dissimulating impressions.
        Common Sense, How to Exercise It
        2
        Leaving Warwick to discharge the duty enjoined him, we follow the dissimulating king.
        The Last of the Barons — Volume 07
        3
        I saw no evidence that Diana was lying, dissimulating or faking.
        Wild Justice
        4
        He had done enough acting in his life to be at home when dissimulating.
        The Devil's Garden
        5
        Borrow was as incapable of dissimulating his dislikes as he was of controlling his moods.
        The Life of George Borrow
        6
        I laughed but I knew that he was dissimulating.
        The Guardian
        7
        Or were they perhaps dissimulating as she herself was trying with poor success to do?
        The Title Market
        8
        He had not got over his uneasiness, but had succeeded in dissimulating it deep within him.
        Twenty-six and One, and Other Stories
        9
        She rather enjoyed the prospect of a combat with him, of the end of dissimulating her contempt.
        The Price She Paid
        10
        Iakov lowered his head, dissimulating a smile.
        Twenty-six and One, and Other Stories
        11
        By dissimulating to Hunston-theviper!
        Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigands of Greece
        12
        Lastly, there was the worldly device, which I adopted, of dissimulating the furnace of my affliction beneath a smiling exterior.
        Simon the Jester
        13
        Micheline's sweetness emboldened him; he no longer took the trouble of dissimulating, and treated his young wife with perfect indifference.
        Serge Panine — Volume 04
        14
        They are perhaps less subtle and dissimulating than the Myalls, and if possible more ignorant than they of our language and persons.
        Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume...
        15
        How I had to conceal it, dissimulating every sign of my happiness, locking it hastily away within the coffer of my heart.
        The Inferno
        16
        Then, though never dissimulating with them, I had tempered the brutality of giving them in explicit terms what had happened to their homes.
        The Last Ship
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