dissimulating

dis·sim·u·late

 (dĭ-sĭm′yə-lāt′)
v. dis·sim·u·lat·ed, dis·sim·u·lat·ing, dis·sim·u·lates
v.tr.
To conceal (one's intentions, for example) under a feigned appearance. See Synonyms at disguise.
v.intr.
To conceal one's true feelings or intentions.

[Middle English dissimulaten, from Latin dissimulāre, dissimulāt- : dis-, dis- + simulāre, to simulate; see simulate.]

dis·sim′u·la′tion n.
dis·sim′u·la′tive adj.
dis·sim′u·la′tor n.
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Becker gives an extended semiotic analysis of these documents, in chronological order, to demonstrate the shifting (and often dissimulating) strategies of the use of Buddhist remains in cultural tourism.
But investigating magistrates have indicted him on charges of "complicity in illegal election campaign financing" for suspicion of dissimulating the use of massive amounts of cash in the 2007 campaign, "Mediapart" reported.
If the Americans get away with lying to the world about new chemical attacks, and if the world becomes a full partner to their original lie and lets them slide in their dissimulating desperation for regime change, the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Syria could get worse than what it is now.
In contrast, Maxwell's work is often described as benumbed or sapless; I remain astonished by the number of smart people who take this position, who seem not to have spent a lifetime dissimulating, neither riven between inside and out nor between thought and word, who seem never to have shaken their heads while howling a silent yes.
Anthony Close has commented on what he calls the metamorphosing or dissimulating of the Spanish comic mentality after 1559, the year of the publication of Fernando de Valdes's Index of Forbidden Books, since after that date, the genre of the short story or novela--which he categorizes as comic prose fiction--was either expurgated, such as Boccaccio's Decameron and Lazarillo de Tormes, or censored altogether, as was the case with Erasmian satire.
The lying, cheating, condescending, confiscatory, dishonest, glib, dissimulating, conniving con man - hang on, this isn't good for my blood pressure.
To put this differently, the challenge this article confronts is that of teasing out the spatial politics of Sri Lanka's own landscapes on their own terms, in ways not beholden to the dissimulating Eurocentric theoretical normativities built into the late-modern critical landscape geographer's tool kit.
Therefore, pretending, or dissimulating, leaves the principle of reality intact: the difference is always clear, it is simply masked, whereas simulation threatens the difference between the 'true' and the 'false,' the 'real' and the 'imaginary'.
The task of dissimulating passivity by inventing new variants of spectacular participation and enlarging the range of available stereotypes falls to our happeners, Pop Art practitioners and sociodramatists.
I have dubbed Epistles as 'poetry of dissimulatio' for two reasons: firstly, because I believe that Horace constructed their main speaker as a duplicitous 'liar persona', a dissimulating slave to which we may also refer to as 'Davus's Horace'.
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