Contents
English
Verb
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Infinitive to dissimulate |
Third person singular dissimulates |
Simple past dissimulated |
Past participle dissimulated |
Present participle dissimulating |
to dissimulate (third-person singular simple present dissimulates, present participle dissimulating, simple past and past participle dissimulated)
- To deceive by concealment or omission.
- 1912 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. It was the face of a man uninstructed in mercy; it was a shrewd and planning face: alert, resourceful, elaborately perceptive, and flawlessly hard. — Booth Tarkington, The Flirt, Chapter 13
Derived terms
Italian
Verb
dissimulate
- Second-person plural present tense of dissimulare.
- Second-person plural imperative of dissimulare.
- Feminine plural of dissimulato.
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