Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • With or in disguise.

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  • adverb In disguise.

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  • adverb In disguise.

Etymologies

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disguised +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • I suppose that one of our main motives is to show that there is, in quasi-existence, nothing but the preposterous -- or something intermediate to absolute preposterousness and final reasonableness -- that the new is the obviously preposterous; that it becomes the established and disguisedly preposterous; that it is displaced, after a while, and is again seen to be the preposterous.

    The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

  • And pains are taken purposely, not disguisedly, but openly and avowedly, to make one word answer to another, as if they had been measured together and were equal to each other.

    The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • In view of the great uncertainty of payment the amount of indebtedness was generally either frankly or disguisedly inflated before being expressed in the certificate.

    Santo Domingo A Country with a Future Otto Schoenrich

  • Whatever surprise the stout German may have felt at seeing them altogether soaked and disguisedly dirty, and likewise alive, he showed none; he was strictly business.

    Frontier Boys in Frisco Wyn Roosevelt

  • God, and everybody thought himself to be a god, and in truth there it failed, not on theories in Europe proclaiming, openly or disguisedly, everyone a god.

    The Agony of the Church (1917) Nikolai Velimirovi�� 1918

  • She did not even stop to think how long she had had Frank Scherman's attention all to herself, or the triumph that it was in the eyes of the older girls, among whom he was excessively admired, and not very disguisedly competed for.

    A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. 1865

  • By slow gradations downward, from bad to worse, her husband's character manifested itself less and less disguisedly almost day by day.

    After Dark Wilkie Collins 1856

  • Whenever the early Christians happened to be in company with strangers, more properly termed _the Profane_, they never spoke of their sacraments, but indicated to one another what they meant by means of symbols and secret watchwords, disguisedly, and as by direct communication of mind with mind, and by enigmas.

    Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850

  • They consult, so there is nothing rashly, inconsiderately done; and then they prescribe, they write, so there is nothing covertly, disguisedly, unavowedly done.

    Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel John Donne 1601

  • It can never be used against fishermen in the United States under any circumstances, unless the arrested and indicted fishermen used the fishing boat to disguisedly transport illegal drugs or other contraband, which is not the case in that of the

    UnderwaterTimes.com News of the Underwater World 2009

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