in disguise

phrase

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

Perhaps the biggest was that an HBO Max Reddit account was hijacked and began directing users to an app that was actually infostealer malware in disguise. — Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 18 Sep. 2026

When phrased mathematically, the problem of designing error-correcting codes is actually a sphere-packing problem in disguise. — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026

On the day, Mahone, who was with the men in disguise, rushed onto the bus in Jerash after the driver was overpowered, grabbed her daughter, fought off Burns’ chaperone and sprinted to the getaway car. — Johnny Dodd, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026

Abdurraqib’s point, though, appears to be that the curse might be a blessing in disguise, or at least that our attempts to outrun the curse might be more cursed than the curse itself. — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for in disguise

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