thinly-disguised

While the premier's comments allowed liberal publications to run unusually bold calls for change, conservative media were swift to push back with thinly-disguised critiques of his speech.

Wen Jiabao talks of democracy and freedom in CNN interview Tania Branigan in Beijing 2010

And get a load of this guilt trip, thinly-disguised as selflessness: ...everything I do is unequivocally 100% for my daughters.

Disgrasian: Are Chinese Mothers Superior? You Can Decide for Yourself Disgrasian 2011

First, he appears to be facing the thinly-disguised wrath of a Met commissioner angry that he is being accused of an improperly contractual relationship with Neil Wallis, a former News of the World deputy editor, when the prime minister arguably insisted on an even less appropriate relationship with Coulson.

How Paul Stephenson and PM fell out over hacking scandal 2011

What those stubborn individuals on today's conservative right fail to realize is that, for all their protesting, all their lobbying, all their campaigning, all their thinly-disguised bigotry and hatred, in the end, it will ultimately be for naught.

David Fagin: How About a Hand for J.C. Penney C.E.O. Ron Johnson? David Fagin 2012

We need to abolish the Constituent Service Funds that dole out personal favors and finance thinly-disguised electioneering rather than offer actual community assistance.

Max Skolnik: Grandma's Hands: Real Ethics Reform in DC Max Skolnik 2011

Mavis writes young adult novels that are only thinly-disguised relivings of her own high-school glory days, and she's otherwise obsessed with appearances and shallow celebrity status.

Govindini Murty: Charlize Theron's Young Adult and the Crisis of Narcissism in Our Popular Culture Govindini Murty 2011

Some right-wingers -- perhaps in order to avoid the topic completely -- dismissed even the more nuanced response from liberals as nothing but a cheap political trick, as thinly-disguised blame for the murders.

Joe Scarborough to right wing: Stop whining about shooting! Greg Sargent 2011

But that is really a thinly-disguised way of saying "I cannot explain this result."

Economic Arguments, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Mavis writes young adult novels that are only thinly-disguised relivings of her own high-school glory days, and she's otherwise obsessed with appearances and shallow celebrity status.

Govindini Murty: Charlize Theron's Young Adult and the Crisis of Narcissism in Our Popular Culture Govindini Murty 2011

We need to abolish the Constituent Service Funds that dole out personal favors and finance thinly-disguised electioneering rather than offer actual community assistance.

Max Skolnik: Grandma's Hands: Real Ethics Reform in DC Max Skolnik 2011