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Dissimulation

Dissimulation meaning

The act of concealing the truth; hypocrisy or deception. | Hiding one's feelings or intentions.

Example sentences (5)

It is not often that one hears anything like the truth in today's Washington, a city where the art of dissimulation has reached new heights among both Democrats and Republicans.

David Hume described him as a man who used dissimulation to conceal "his fierce and savage nature" and who had "abandoned all principles of honour and humanity".

Eventually, they resorted to the act of Taqq'iya (dissimulation), hiding their true identities until their Imams would awaken them.

Torvald feels physically ill in the presence of a man "poisoning his own children with lies and dissimulation".

Unskilled in the royal talent of dissimulation, he always was what he appeared to be.