Definition of "dissimulate" verb third-person singular simple present dissimulates , present participle dissimulating , simple past and past participle dissimulated
(intransitive) To practise deception by concealment or omission , or by feigning a false appearance . quotations examples
Quotations 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 .
1913, Booth Tarkington, chapter 13, in The Flirt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 212