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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of dissimulate.

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Examples

  • As a half-buried house in its relation to the main access it appears diminished; on the other hand, from the river, it appears as a glass frame dissimulated on the vegetation.

    House in Gerês by Correia Ragazzi Architects 2009

  • A rectangular concrete box with glazed sides, cantilevered over a hillside, dissimulated on the vegetation.

    House in Gerês by Correia Ragazzi Architects 2009

  • It would not have happened at all if Lincoln had not dissimulated about re-enforcements and had a hostile fleet just outside.

    Archive 2008-04-06 papabear 2008

  • The reason is that Chavez cannot tolerate that the spotlight is taken away from him and when that happens he always burps something out that is sure to send the country into a newer chaotic spasm since Chavez underlings are unable to discern what is a mere dissimulated form of swearing and what might be actually a state policy.

    Lapi, Chavez and private health care 2007

  • Up to these days, black people, who represent half of Brazilian population, get lower wages, go more to prison and suffer strong, although dissimulated, prejudice.

    The Consequences of Slavery in Africa - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

  • Camped at the provincial airport of Vatry-Reims on Oct. 25, waiting to embrace the refugee toddlers, these families stayed on the next day, stubbornly convinced of the association's good faith, even after hearing that the majority of the children, whose good health was dissimulated under false bandages, were from Chad, not Darfur.

    White Man's Folly 2007

  • At the same time, giving way to a just though prudently dissimulated resentment, she made a vow that she would never enter the gates of Castle Brady while the lady of the house remained alive within them.

    The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

  • For instance, with a delight as dissimulated but also as deep as if it had been a case of serious illness, if I happened to be hot and the perspiration

    Time Regained 2003

  • It all came over him as with the near presence of the beauty, the grace, the intense, dissimulated spirit with which he had, as he said, been putting off contact.

    The Ambassadors 2003

  • The mere charm of seeing such an idea constituent, in its degree; the fineness of the measures taken — a real extension, if successful, of the very terms and possibilities of representation and figuration — such things alone were, after this fashion, inspiring, such things alone were a gage of the probable success of that dissimulated calculation with which the whole effort was to square.

    The Ambassadors 2003

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