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dissembling

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Main Entry: dissemble
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: disguise, pretend

Synonyms:

affect, camouflage, cloak, conceal, counterfeit, cover, cover up, dissimulate, double-talk, doublespeak, dress up, fake, falsify, feign, four-flush, hide, let on, make like, mask, pass, play possum, pussyfoot, put on a false front, put on a front, put on an act, put up a front, put up a smoke screen, sham*, shroud, shuck and jive, signify, simulate, stonewall, whitewash
Notes: dissemble means to conceal, to give a false appearance; disassemble means to take apart

Antonyms:

admit, allow
Main Entry: camouflage
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: disguise, cover

Synonyms:

beard, becloud, befog, cloak, conceal, cover up, deceive, dim, dissemble, dissimulate, dress up, hide, mask, obfuscate, obscure, screen, throw on makeup, veil

Antonyms:

reveal, show, uncover
Main Entry: cloak
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: disguise

Synonyms:

blanket, camouflage, coat, conceal, cover, curtain, dissemble, dissimulate, dress up, hide, mask, obscure, pretext, screen, shroud, veil

Antonyms:

reveal, uncloak, uncover
Main Entry: conceal
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: hide, disguise

Synonyms:

beard, burrow, bury, cache, camouflage, cloak, couch, cover, cover up, dissemble, ditch, duck, ensconce, enshroud, harbor, hole up, keep dark, keep secret, lie low, lurk, mask, masquerade, obscure, plant*, put in a hole, screen, secrete, shelter, skulk, slink, sneak, stash, stay out of sight, stow, tuck away, veil, wrap

Antonyms:

disclose, divulge, expose, lay bare, let out, open, reveal, show, tell, uncover
Main Entry: disguise
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: mask; misrepresent

Synonyms:

affect, age, alter, antique, assume, beard, belie, camouflage, change, cloak, color, conceal, counterfeit, cover, cover up, deceive, dissemble, dissimulate, doctor up, dress up, fake, falsify, feign, front, fudge, garble, gloss over, hide, make like, make up, masquerade, muffle, obfuscate, obscure, pretend, put on a false front, put on a front, put on an act, put up a front, redo, screen, secrete, sham, shroud, simulate, touch up, varnish, veil, wear cheaters, whitewash

Antonyms:

expose, open, represent, reveal, uncover, unmask
Main Entry: dissimulate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: conceal, disguise

Synonyms:

beard, camouflage, cloak, deceive, dissemble, dress up, fake, feign, hide, make-believe, mask, present a false face, present a false front, pretend

Antonyms:

be honest
Main Entry: evasive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: deceitful, tricky

Synonyms:

ambiguous, cagey, casuistic, casuistical, cunning, deceptive, devious, dissembling, elusive, elusory, equivocating, false, fugitive, greasy, indirect, intangible, lying, misleading, oblique, prevaricating, shifty, shuffling, slippery, sly, sophistical, stonewalling, unclear, vague
Notes: elusive is used when what is being avoided is physical capture or apprehension, whereas evasive is used when what is being avoided is direct or relevant response to a verbal challenge

Antonyms:

direct, forthright, honest, ready, straight, straightforward
Main Entry: feign
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: pretend

Synonyms:

act, affect, assume, bluff*, counterfeit, devise, dissemble, dissimulate, do a bit, fabricate, fake, forge, four-flush, give appearance of, imagine, imitate, invent, make show of, phony up, play, play possum, put on, put on act, put up a front, sham*, simulate, stonewall

Antonyms:

be true
Main Entry: hide
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: conceal; remain unseen

Synonyms:

adumbrate, blot out, bury, cache, camouflage, cloak, cover, curtain, disguise, dissemble, ditch, duck, eclipse, ensconce, go into hiding, go underground, harbor, hold back, hole up, hush up, keep from, keep secret, lie low, lock up, mask, not give away, not tell, obscure, plant, protect, put out of the way, reserve, salt away, screen, secrete, shadow, shelter, shield, shroud, smuggle, squirrel, stash, stifle, stow away, suppress, take cover, tuck away, veil, withhold

Antonyms:

bare, disclose, divulge, exhibit, expose, lay bare, let out, open, reveal, show, tell, uncover, unmask
Main Entry: hypocrisy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deceitfulness, pretense

Synonyms:

affectation, bad faith, bigotry, cant, casuistry, deceit, deception, dishonesty, display, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, false profession, falsity, fraud, glibness, imposture, insincerity, irreverence, lie, lip service, mockery, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, phoniness, pietism, quackery, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, speciousness, unctuousness

Antonyms:

forthrightness, honesty, righteousness, sincerity, truth
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