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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
dissimulate .
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Examples
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Marandi, who arranged for the Leveretts 'to visit Tehran recently, consistently defends and dissimulates the brutality of the Iranian government, dismissing well documented prison rapes and murders as Western and Zionist-media conspiracies.
Omid Memarian: The Leveretts and the Accountability of the American Analysts on Iran 2010
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Marandi, who arranged for the Leveretts 'to visit Tehran recently, consistently defends and dissimulates the brutality of the Iranian government, dismissing well documented prison rapes and murders as Western and Zionist-media conspiracies.
Omid Memarian: The Leveretts and the Accountability of American Analysts on Iran 2010
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Hillary is in the same mold as her husband as she lies, dissimulates, and misspeaks her way through her campaign and makes clear that, in her own mind, she was born to rule.
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It is that in reality the agitation never exists alone, it is accompanied by another very important phenomenon which it dissimulates sometimes, I mean the depression characterized by the diminution or the disappearance of superior actions, appertaining to the highest level of our hierarchy.
A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 Various
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Some hatred, weak and without self-confidence, or seeking the effect of surprise, is hypocritical, dissimulates, affects friendly feeling, rubs its hands over insults and awaits the opportune moment.
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I am certain she dissimulates her affection for you with greater care than you take to multiply proofs of yours for her.
Ninon de L'Enclos the Celebrated Beauty of the 17th Century Robinson, Charles Henry 1903
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And when our Cotton Snob does at last return to the paternal roof, he dissimulates so well, pretends to love money so devoutly, gets drunk so slyly, and flatters the Southern Yankee so unceasingly, the latter is totally blinded, at least for a time.
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So he carried there, where the most pressing danger lay and reform was the most urgent, the strongest forces of his principles, and made it a law to pursue sensualism without pity, whether it walks with a bold face, impudently insulting morality, or dissimulates under the imposing veil of a moral, praiseworthy end, under which a certain fanatical kind of order know how to disguise it.
Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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So he carried there, where the most pressing danger lay and reform was the most urgent, the strongest forces of his principles, and made it a law to pursue sensualism without pity, whether it walks with a bold face, impudently insulting morality, or dissimulates under the imposing veil of a moral, praiseworthy end, under which a certain fanatical kind of order know how to disguise it.
The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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He dissimulates in order to win someone over regardless of ethical contradiction in the hope of gaining some advantage over that person or getting something out of him.
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