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Was it confidence or dissimulation that brought such an easy smile?
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We search for any dissimulation on a resume.
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They used a method known in symbology as dissimulation.† (source)
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I personally dislike the greasy dissimulation of diplomacy.† (source)
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Let love be without dissimulation.† (source)
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Alba learned to lie and dissimulate.† (source)
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He even observed the changes in her breathing, watching the reliquary that hung on her batiste blouse as he looked at her without dissimulation over the book he pretended to read, and he committed the calculated impertinence of changing his seat in the dining room so that he would face her.† (source)
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We have not the strength with which to fight this man; we must dissimulate, and win, if win we can, by craft.† (source)
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She would perhaps be hardly characterized enough if it were omitted that she wore her brown hair flatly braided and coiled behind so as to expose the outline of her head in a daring manner at a time when public feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows, never surpassed by any great race except the Feejeean.† (source)
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Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.† (source)
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This kind of dissimulation ....is a necessary branch of wisdom, and so far from being immoral ....that it is a duty and a virtue.† (source)
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Hare might still have tried to dissimulate; but one glance at August's stern face showed the uselessness of it.† (source)
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She locked herself in her room, refused to eat or drink, and when at last he persuaded her to open the door, first with threats and then with poorly dissimulated pleading, he found a wounded panther who would never be fifteen years old again.† (source)
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Maybe he was dissimulating, like some of the teachers at the college, who, to avoid trouble when driving through the small surrounding towns, wore chauffeur caps and pretended that their cars belonged to white men.† (source)
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He could not keep up a dissimulation.† (source)
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He rubbed his hands, he laughed with that inward mirth which makes the countenance beam; he was unable to dissimulate his joy, although he endeavored at moments to compose himself.† (source)
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