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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Tartuffe, cloaking, concealing, cunning, deceit, deception, dissemblance, dissembler, dissembling, dissimulator, double-dealing, duplicity, feigning, guile, hiding, hypocrisy, lip server, masking, misrepresentation, pharisaism, pharisee, pretense, sanctimony, secreting, sham, whited sepulcher
Dictionary Results for dissimulation:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
dissimulation
    n 1: the act of deceiving [syn: deception, deceit,
         dissembling, dissimulation]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dissimulation \dis*sim`u*la"tion\, n. [L. dissimulatio: cf. F.
   dissimulation.]
   The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance;
   concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy.
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         Let love be without dissimulation.       --Rom. xii. 9.
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         Dissimulation . . . when a man lets fall signs and
         arguments that he is not that he is.     --Bacon.
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         Simulation is a pretense of what is not, and
         dissimulation a concealment of what is.  --Tatler.
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