Crossword-Solution: DISSIMULATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dissimulate | a. | Feigning; simulating; pretending. |
| Dissimulate | v. i. | To dissemble; to feign; to pretend. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “DISSIMULATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| to pretend, feign | 1 answer |
| hide from other people | 1 answer |
| Disguise, as one's feelings | 1 answer |
| Conceal truth by false pretensions | 1 answer |
| Camouflage | 30 answers |
| mask | 43 answers |
| dissemble | 44 answers |
| Disguise | 54 answers |
| Falsify | 55 answers |
| Cloak | 55 answers |
| Simulate | 58 answers |
| Feign | 66 answers |
| Exaggerate | 69 answers |
| Pervert | 69 answers |
| Assume | 70 answers |
| Affect | 75 answers |
| Hide-___. | 77 answers |
| Deceive | 82 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DISSIMULATE (5)
But now, as he paced alone in his apartment, now that he was not upon exhibition, now when there was no eye to behold him, and there was no reason to dissimulate or veil a single thought or feeling, his look was anything but open; the last trace of frankness disappeared; the muscles at mouth and eyes shifted; lines and planes intermingled and altered subtly; there was a moment of misty transformation--and the face of another man emerged.
Wrinkled, bony and strong, he tried to dissimulate his uncouthness as a man of battle under a suave and indolent laziness.
The one who wishes to rule should----” “What, madame, must I then dissimulate, calculate, become false, form an artificial character, and live in it? How is it possible to live in such a way? Can you----” she hesitated; the Duchess smiled.
Unfortunately, to her present she joined the recommendation not to allow his father to know any thing about it; forgetting that she was thus training Maxence to dissimulate, warping his natural sense of right, and perverting his instincts.
Was your father a simpleton? No! His ability to dissimulate, for years, his double existence, proves, on the contrary, a wonderful amount of duplicity.
Quotes with DISSIMULATE (3)
it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them).
To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have.
My hypothesis is mimetic: because humans imitate one another more than animals, they have had to find a means of dealing with contagious similarity, which could lead to the pure and simple disappearance of their society. The mechanism that reintroduces difference into a situation in which everyone has come to resemble everyone else is sacrifice. Humanity results from sacrifice; we are thus the children of religion. What I call after Freud the founding murder, in other words, …
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Appears in: USA TODAY.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2014).