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.
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Religious police tend to ramp up their presence during Ramadan, activists note, which ends later this week, patrolling the streets more visibly and staking out at popular eateries – sometimes in disguise – to catch those breaching the rules.
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Heather Chen, CNN, 8 Apr. 2024
Israeli officials have disputed this account, however, saying in interviews that their intelligence suggests the compound was not in fact a civilian building but a Quds Force military headquarters in disguise.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 2 Apr. 2024
The regulator’s response that these fees are interest payments in disguise does not ring true.
—Wayne Winegarden, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
The characters in it—which, of course, are all Sherman in disguise—are women in their senescence, a state Sherman exaggerates to cartoonish effect, using pancaked makeup and Cubistic digital-collage techniques that can make the faces of her imaginary subjects puffy, pinched, and simply strange.
—Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2024
The famed Dana Point Waterfall is actually stormwater runoff in disguise.
—Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 6 Feb. 2024
Also, note that delays now could be a blessing in disguise!
—Kyle Thomas, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2024
Several zombie blockchain tokens, including cardano and algorand, were cited as being examples of securities in disguise.
—Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
Donald Trump cast Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a liberal democrat in disguise while also seeming to back the independent presidential candidate as a spoiler for the Biden campaign.
—Katie Rogers, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
Heather Chen, CNN, 8 Apr. 2024
Israeli officials have disputed this account, however, saying in interviews that their intelligence suggests the compound was not in fact a civilian building but a Quds Force military headquarters in disguise.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 2 Apr. 2024
The regulator’s response that these fees are interest payments in disguise does not ring true.
—Wayne Winegarden, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
The characters in it—which, of course, are all Sherman in disguise—are women in their senescence, a state Sherman exaggerates to cartoonish effect, using pancaked makeup and Cubistic digital-collage techniques that can make the faces of her imaginary subjects puffy, pinched, and simply strange.
—Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2024
The famed Dana Point Waterfall is actually stormwater runoff in disguise.
—Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 6 Feb. 2024
Also, note that delays now could be a blessing in disguise!
—Kyle Thomas, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2024
Several zombie blockchain tokens, including cardano and algorand, were cited as being examples of securities in disguise.
—Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
Donald Trump cast Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a liberal democrat in disguise while also seeming to back the independent presidential candidate as a spoiler for the Biden campaign.
—Katie Rogers, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
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