Disguise
To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive.
To hide by a counterfeit appearance; to cloak by a false show; to mask; as, to disguise anger; to disguise one's sentiments, character, or intentions.
To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.
A dress or exterior put on for purposes of concealment or of deception; as, persons doing unlawful acts in disguise are subject to heavy penalties.
Artificial language or manner assumed for deception; false appearance; counterfeit semblance or show.
Change of manner by drink; intoxication.
A masque or masquerade.
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Disguise Quotations
Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
Mother Teresa
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
Alexander Pope
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
Jerome K. Jerome
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
James Russell Lowell
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Bertrand Russell
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
John Locke
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
Blaise Pascal
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
Erica Jong
Disguise Translations
disguise in German is Verstellung, verkleide, verkleiden
disguise in Italian is travestire
disguise in Latin is dissimulo
disguise in Norwegian is maskere, forkledning, forkle
disguise in Spanish is disfraz, disfrazar
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