Definition of Disguise

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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

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
Blaise Pascal

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

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
Alexander Pope

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Gore Vidal

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
George Santayana

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Bertrand Russell

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
Jackie Collins

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

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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