in disguise

idiom

1

: wearing a disguise

I've heard that she sometimes travels around the country in disguise.

2

: made to look like something else : presented as another thing

He says that the new fee is really just a tax increase in disguise.

Examples of in disguise in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The real Chichiarelli was shot six times under mysterious circumstances a few months after his role in the Securmark robbery, similar enough to the climactic murder in The Big Fake for director Lodovichi to playfully suggest, like a good noir should, that facts can easily be fiction in disguise. —Rory Doherty, Time, 26 Jan. 2026

Ododos Modal Soft Wide-leg Lounge Pants These are sweatpants in disguise—and yes, that’s a compliment. —Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 17 Jan. 2026

Now, a new study finds the strange features of little red dots might be explained by supermassive black holes in disguise during their youth. —Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 14 Jan. 2026

Even when insulted or thwarted – by Spanish intrigues on the Florida frontier, by British seizures in the Caribbean, by pamphleteers accusing him of being a monarch in disguise – Washington’s tone remained measured. —Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2026

Rhymes for in disguise

• advertise
• aggrandize
• agonize
• alibis
• alkalies
• alkalis
• amortize
• amplifies
• analyse
• analyze
• anywise
• authorize