thinly disguised

phrase

: poorly hidden

I was aware of her thinly disguised hostility.

Examples of thinly disguised in a Sentence

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By then, Vokietaitis’ yips had taken on a life of their own and as the Cougars were boring in to foul him intentionally and place him back on that torture chamber that was thinly disguised as a free-throw line, Miller signaled for the timeout to thwart the season's first Hack-a-Matas. — Cedric Golden, Austin American Statesman, 21 Mar. 2026

Nor is the main problem that A Better Life reads like an op-ed column thinly disguised as a novel, although that’s part of the trouble. — Adelle Waldman, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026

His coy narrative voice and audacious insouciance, thinly disguised under a patina of classical Oxford education and self-deprecating wit, amuse the reader for several hundred pages. — Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025

Comments about her appearance are not even thinly disguised as anything other than misogynoir. — Banseka Kayembe, refinery29.com, 15 Apr. 2024

For Ligeti’s centennial, the pianist Han Chen has commissioned a companion piece for each of the composer’s eighteen études, eruptive works thinly disguised as keyboard exercises. — The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2023

Democrats called that misleading and said the GOP plan was a thinly disguised effort to reward oil companies and other energy producers that have contributed millions of dollars to GOP campaigns. — Matthew Daly, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023

Screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky anticipated the many peccadilloes of cable news that were just over the horizon, but also a bit of social media and its impulsive, libidinal urges thinly disguised by data. — WIRED, 19 Jan. 2023

The dark cloud looming over the nuptials is the impending release of Harper’s debut novel, a thinly disguised roman àa clef retelling their college adventures, including a previously unknown dalliance between Harper and the bride. — Joshua Alston, Variety, 20 Dec. 2022

Rhymes for thinly disguised

• americanized
• anathematized
• collateralized
• contextualized
• conventionalized
• demilitarized
• demineralized
• departmentalized
• depersonalized
• industrialised
• industrialized
• materialised