dissimulating
21dissimulate — (v.) 1530s, from L. dissimulatus, pp. of dissimulare to disguise, hide, conceal, keep secret, from dis (see DIS (Cf. dis )) + simulare (see SIMULATE (Cf. simulate)). Related: Dissimulated; dissimulating …
22dissimulate — [[t]dɪsɪ̱mjʊleɪt[/t]] dissimulates, dissimulating, dissimulated VERB When people dissimulate, they hide their true feelings, intentions, or nature. [FORMAL] This man was too injured to dissimulate well... [V n] They were decked out in tracksuits …
23insincere — a. False, faithless, truthless, untrue, disingenuous, uncandid, dishonest, hollow, hypocritical, pharisaical, double tongued, double faced, dissimulating, dissembling …
24hypocritical — adj 1. insincere, disingenuous, deceitful, deceptive, crocodilian, untruthful, hollow, lying, false, mendacious, mealy mouthed; dishonest, underhanded, untrustworthy; perfidious, treacherous, traitorous, faithless, Punic, treasonable; double… …
25insincere — adj disingenuous, uncandid, unfrank, mealy mouthed; artificial, plastic, Inf. phony; dissembling, dissimulating, hypocritical, crocodilian; deceitful, dishonest, underhanded, crooked, tricky, double tongued; faithless, disloyal, perfidious,… …
26dissimulate — UK [dɪˈsɪmjʊleɪt] / US [dɪˈsɪmjəˌleɪt] verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms dissimulate : present tense I/you/we/they dissimulate he/she/it dissimulates present participle dissimulating past tense dissimulated past participle dissimulated… …
27dissimulate — [c]/dəˈsɪmjəleɪt / (say duh simyuhlayt) verb (dissimulated, dissimulating) –verb (t) 1. to disguise or conceal under a false semblance; dissemble. –verb (i) 2. to use dissimulation; dissemble: *Even those who don t go to war are licensed to lie,… …
28dissimulation — /dəsɪmjəˈleɪʃən/ (say duhsimyuh layshuhn) noun 1. the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy. 2. Psychiatry the ability or the tendency to appear mentally normal when actually suffering from disorder, a characteristic of the paranoiac. Compare …
29insincere — [adj] dishonest, pretended ambidextrous, backhanded, deceitful, deceptive, devious, disingenuous, dissembling, dissimulating, double, double dealing, duplicitous, evasive, faithless, fake, false, hollow, hypocritical, lying, mendacious,… …
30lying — [adj] dishonest committing perjury, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, delusory, dissembling, dissimulating, double crossing*, doubledealing*, equivocating, false, falsifying, fibbing, guileful, inventing, mendacious, misleading, misrepresenting,… …
