dissimulate

About 0.06 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To practise deception by concealment or omission, or by feigning a false appearance; to dissemble.
2. verb To disguise or hide by adopting a false appearance; to dissemble.
3. verb To connive at; to wink at; to pretend not to notice.
4. adjective Feigned, simulated, pretended, false.

Similar words

dissimule disguise dissemble occult feign disguize cover up play possum redisguise play down

Often followed by

the his their and in or its it a

Word family

dissimulated dissimulates dissimulating dissimulation dissimulations dissimulator dissimulators