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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Some providers described assumptions that patients with substance use disorders were irresponsible, dishonest or less deserving of empathy than other patients.—
Karli Swenson,
The Conversation,
11 June 2026 -
Trump has years of experience with this kind of dishonest narrative flexibility.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
11 June 2026
Verb
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Clarity does not require pretending the fog is gone.—
Gerald J. Leonard,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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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.—
Elizabeth Yuko,
Rolling Stone,
18 June 2026
Adjective
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And so, open door policies rarely fail because leaders are insincere.—
Benjamin Laker,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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Everyone else was various degrees of insincere or arch.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
7 June 2026
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.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2026
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That makes some of this outrage feel phony.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
10 June 2026
Adjective
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Authorities say the operation powered fake websites built to steal credit card numbers, passwords and other personal information.—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
19 June 2026
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None of that makes the project fake.—
Gabriel Alin Zainescu,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
Adjective
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The Prisoner’s Share was first released in 2022, and shows how an artful red wine finish can be achieved without overpowering the whiskey with fruit and tannic notes.—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
18 June 2026
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The majority of his customers come in for tattoos of a conventional and artful sort.—
Rick Kogan,
Chicago Tribune,
17 June 2026
Adjective
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The end zones, yard markers and artificial turf are gone inside the retractable-roof stadium during soccer matches.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
20 June 2026
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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%.—
Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
Adjective
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Not to sound pretentious, but Elwood Dowd is sort of like a Christlike figure.—
Scott Feinberg,
HollywoodReporter,
4 June 2026
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Set the scene Sexy without being pretentious and bold without the brashness, Il Sereno is a lesson in artful restraint.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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“Dissimulating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissimulating. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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