Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to or characterized by pretense or dissimulation: as, a dissimulative life; dissimulative arts.
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- adjective concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive
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Examples
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Allen is as vacuous, dissimulative, intellectually shallow, and authoritarian by impulse as Bush, without Bushes apparent lack of racism and sexism -- Bush's only redeeming qualities.
Midterm Roundup 2009
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Often on the front-line of such dissimulative activities, this arguably qualifies a trained private investigator to be in the elite in understanding human behaviour, particularly when there is reasonable cause for suspicion.
Archive 2008-02-01 Thatsnews 2008
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Unless one is truly talented in the dissimulative arts (or alternatively, truly a sociopath), this is something that cannot, ultimately, be faked (or at least not for long).
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2007
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I'm willing to assume that non-churchgoers find this dissimulative.
Archive 2006-11-01 Jeremiah McNichols 2006
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I'm willing to assume that non-churchgoers find this dissimulative.
Product Placement In The Pulpit: Advertising Comes to Church Jeremiah McNichols 2006
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Greenberg's subject is taboo: children in pain, the Paul Kopeikin Gallery's press release confides, but while Kopeikin rightly senses that Greenberg is encroaching on a taboo, his interpretation of that taboo is dissimulative to the point of absurdity.
Archive 2006-07-01 Jeremiah McNichols 2006
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The foreign journals, however, have so much in them that is dissimulative and latent, they require more care and discernment.
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What Louis, always dissimulative, feigned to be an act of gracious homage to dead generosity was in truth an act of defiant and safe self-assertion.
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On a quarter of the deck where they stood alone, what a striking pair were Flora and Irby as side by side they faced the ruffling air, softly discussing matters alien to the gliding scene and giving it only a dissimulative show of attention.
Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884
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They were extremely good natured young men; they were more observant than they appeared; in a sort of inarticulate, accidentally dissimulative fashion, they were highly appreciative.
jmjarmstrong commented on the word dissimulative
JM stimulates his dissimulative simulator and dissimulates away!
September 22, 2010