as in assuming
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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
Adjective
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An honest summary would still pass the buck to the voters on a grossly dishonest scheme, but at least the voters might recognize a description that doesn’t cajole, coax and mislead them.
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What is obvious is that the only thing as dishonest as FIFA’s insistence that the breaks are only because of its concerns about players’ health is FIFA’s claiming that the stoppages don’t impact matches.
Verb
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Clarity does not require pretending the fog is gone.
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This has included perpetrators pretending to administer a survey in their car, posing as a social worker giving away free baby items at their home, accompanying victims to a doctor’s appointment at a nonexistent clinic, and luring them to fake baby showers.
Adjective
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And so, open door policies rarely fail because leaders are insincere.
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Everyone else was various degrees of insincere or arch.
Adjective
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To make matters worse, cybercriminals are using fake FIFA sites, bogus ticket offers and phony job ads to scam viewers.
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That makes some of this outrage feel phony.
Adjective
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Authorities say the operation powered fake websites built to steal credit card numbers, passwords and other personal information.
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None of that makes the project fake.
Adjective
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The goal scorer then took an artful first touch before drilling it home.
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Coco Beach uses nature and artful design to deliver the Caribbean equivalent of a steel ring of privacy for its guests.
Adjective
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The end zones, yard markers and artificial turf are gone inside the retractable-roof stadium during soccer matches.
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The boom in artificial-intelligence memory chips has turned Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix into trillion-dollar companies and lifted the Kospi by roughly 80%.
Adjective
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Not to sound pretentious, but Elwood Dowd is sort of like a Christlike figure.
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Set the scene Sexy without being pretentious and bold without the brashness, Il Sereno is a lesson in artful restraint.
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“Dissimulating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissimulating. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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