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
Verb
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The challenge is to stop pretending the current tools give full control and start demanding real visibility.—
Jagadeesh Kunda,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025 -
Kelley susses out that Göring is pretending not to understand or speak English, and for a couple of scenes that gives the shrink a leg up.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Industry groups insist that they are committed to weeding out dishonest companies that make false claims or sell dangerous products.—
Suzy Khimm,
NBC news,
26 Aug. 2025
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No, it was done to protect dishonest businesses.—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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For one, Vitale writes that the sort of direct-to-camera monologues that have become the toast of Bourdainposting were, in Bourdain’s eyes, corny and insincere.—
Tres Dean,
Vulture,
29 Aug. 2025
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The movie does not earn the right for such an insincere have-your-I-Heart-the-’90s-cake-and-eat-it-too gesture.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
16 July 2025
Adjective
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Transformers and GANs can produce identical sets of phony PII (name, SSN, DOB and digital activity) that appear completely authentic.—
Rohan Pinto,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Many on the British right have become convinced that victory in the war was in some way phony.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The Federal Trade Commission issued an alert earlier in 2025 to encourage parents to talk to their children about the risks associated with responding to a fake text.—
Susan Tompor,
USA Today,
7 Sep. 2025
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To make Reen feel comfortable and truly welcomed, Long’s entire extended family wore fake tattoo sleeves to the reunion.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Courtesy Photo The website that has resulted from all of this work is equal parts intuitive, smart, and artful.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
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Bulgari Octo Finissimo x Lee Ufan Tourbillon Marble Talking to Fabrizio Buonamassa Stigliani of Bulgari about the latest member of the increasingly artful side of the Bulgari Finissimo family was eye-opening, as was the work of Lee Ufan.—
Thor Svaboe,
Robb Report,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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To address these challenges, the Institute of Energy carried out research on the steady-state operation performance of China’s USD one-trillion ‘artificial sun’ fusion reactor.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Sep. 2025
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Vote as many times as you’d like until then without using bots or any other artificial methods of voting.—
Nathan Canilao,
Mercury News,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Kerouac’s pretentious hitchhiker’s guide lacked the panache, humor, and focus of this one by Douglas Adams.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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Swift making herself into a tortured poet trying to outdo a pretentious, typewriter-wielding ex.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Dissimulating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissimulating. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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