as in pretended
to take on a false or deceptive appearance
as an actress she had been trained to dissimulate, so she had no trouble hiding her true feelings offstage as well
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In the first incident, the victim pretended to sleep during the attack.—
Harry Harris,
Mercury News,
16 June 2026 -
Griffin has never pretended to be a radical innovator or a savant.—
Gary Sernovitz,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
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“Dissimulated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissimulated. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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