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adjective

Definition of dissimulatingnext
as in assuming

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dissimulating

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verb

present participle of dissimulate
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
  1. pretending
  2. dishonest
  3. insincere
  4. phony
  5. fake
  6. artful
  7. artificial
  8. pretentious
Verb
  • The power of a smile Dolphins love to play around, doing things like flipping, surfing, playing with stuff, chasing each other, and pretending to fight.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Those of us working from home were suddenly spending a lot of time pretending to listen in meetings or during FaceTime catch-ups with homebound friends, examining our facial features in the camera instead.
    Katie Way, SELF, 30 Sep. 2024
Definition of pretending
Adjective
  • In a 2022 Pew Research Center study, growing numbers of Americans said members of the other party are dishonest, immoral and closed-minded.
    Rachel Carlson, NPR, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Because there are five meaningful ways that honest messaging beats dishonest marketing.
    Drew Gerber, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of dishonest
Adjective
  • Others offered themselves as mediators in the sincere (or insincere) hope of minimizing the war’s direct and ancillary costs or even of ending it altogether.
    Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2024
  • That’s not to say there’s no room for course-correction — Karen’s frenemy Gizelle Bryant suddenly learning how to apologize this season is a good example — but that a sudden personality transplant reads as insincere.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of insincere
Adjective
  • Grot was among those charged last year by the state's attorney general for allegedly signing a phony certificate pledging the state's Electoral College votes to Trump.
    Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Alaska's top education official used AI to draft a state-wide school policy on cell phone use, and the chatbot cited multiple phony studies.
    Emily Dreibelbis Forlini, PCMAG, 11 Nov. 2024
Definition of phony
Adjective
  • The source of those flames: a Christmas celebration that climaxes with ten helicopters dropping fake snow on the partygoers, a stunt that turns out to be a bad idea because of strong winds and some not-up-to-code fire extinguishers.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2024
  • After 1935, duck and goose hunters were limited to fake decoys.
    Alice Jones Webb, Outdoor Life, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of fake
Adjective
  • The artful touches extend to the imaginative treatment of elements like the turquoise appliances in the chef’s show kitchen, on view from the open-plan dining room.
    Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 25 Nov. 2024
  • On the ground floor, the artful Tribe Caribe features a bistro and the Black Box Gallery—a venue for performances and exhibitions.
    Passport by ForbesLife, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of artful
Adjective
  • Aedes aegypti mosquitoes do not need much water to reproduce and tend to lay eggs just above the water line in small, artificial sources of water, like buckets, pet dishes, fountains and bird baths, plant pots and saucers and old tires.
    Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
  • The series intends Penn to be a contrast point, to make her smooth wheeling and dealing feel artificial compared with Wyler’s more passionate righteousness, but her presence ends up emphasizing how hollow Wyler’s character actually feels.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
Definition of artificial
Adjective
  • Co-founder and master distiller Andy Wahl grew up in wine country, in California’s Sonoma County, and felt that the fine wines harvested in the region were pretentious and inaccessible.
    John Kell, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Yet Connell of all people, whose pretentious classmates use novels to seem superior, should know that the love of literature is hardly disinterested.
    Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
Definition of pretentious
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