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adjective

Definition of dissimulatingnext
as in assuming

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dissimulating

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verb

present participle of dissimulate
as in pretending
to take on a false or deceptive appearance as an actress she had been trained to dissimulate, so she had no trouble hiding her true feelings offstage as well

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissimulating
  1. pretending
  2. dishonest
  3. insincere
  4. phony
  5. fake
  6. artful
  7. artificial
  8. pretentious
Verb
  • The power of a smile Dolphins love to play around, doing things like flipping, surfing, playing with stuff, chasing each other, and pretending to fight.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Those of us working from home were suddenly spending a lot of time pretending to listen in meetings or during FaceTime catch-ups with homebound friends, examining our facial features in the camera instead.
    Katie Way, SELF, 30 Sep. 2024
Definition of pretending
Adjective
  • Because there are five meaningful ways that honest messaging beats dishonest marketing.
    Drew Gerber, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Whereas John Kerry at his convention had struggled to create meaning—no matter how stupid, dishonest, or clichéd—George Bush seemed to be plotting its demise.
    Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
Definition of dishonest
Adjective
  • Others offered themselves as mediators in the sincere (or insincere) hope of minimizing the war’s direct and ancillary costs or even of ending it altogether.
    Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2024
  • That’s not to say there’s no room for course-correction — Karen’s frenemy Gizelle Bryant suddenly learning how to apologize this season is a good example — but that a sudden personality transplant reads as insincere.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of insincere
Adjective
  • The companies state that, in allegedly moving phony products, Christopher, Pitta and the unnamed defendants have done significant harm to consumers’ trust in both Amazon and Longchamp.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Engelbrecht and True the Vote have effectively tried to disenfranchise voters by claiming that voter rolls are filled with phony voter registrations.
    David Gilbert, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of phony
Adjective
  • As voting got underway, the FBI warned that its name and insignia were being used in two fake news clips, including one that falsely claimed the FBI was urging people to vote remotely because of a terrorist threat.
    Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Striking a family pose, Cuoco wore a blue NFL jersey, fake beard and baseball cap, while Pelphrey sported a blonde wig, a pink Nike sweatshirt and white slides.
    Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of fake
Adjective
  • Largely through artful cartel marketing portraying tusi as pretty, fun, and accessible, this blend of cheap drug leftovers has become the substance of choice for Colombian DJs and Mexican rappers, a wolf in sheep’s clothing for European ravers, and a source of confusion for everyone else.
    Celia Ford, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Morris merges bombshell interviews with government officials and artful narrative vignettes tracing one migrant family’s plight, and showing that the cruelty at the heart of the policy was its very purpose as over 1,300 children are without confirmed reunifications years later.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2024
Definition of artful
Adjective
  • Aedes aegypti mosquitoes do not need much water to reproduce and tend to lay eggs just above the water line in small, artificial sources of water, like buckets, pet dishes, fountains and bird baths, plant pots and saucers and old tires.
    Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
  • The series intends Penn to be a contrast point, to make her smooth wheeling and dealing feel artificial compared with Wyler’s more passionate righteousness, but her presence ends up emphasizing how hollow Wyler’s character actually feels.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
Definition of artificial
Adjective
  • Yet Connell of all people, whose pretentious classmates use novels to seem superior, should know that the love of literature is hardly disinterested.
    Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Once the very idea of holding a wine tasting at one’s home was considered a pretentious way of ruining a convivial party.
    John Mariani, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
Definition of pretentious
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