dissimulate

verb

1. (intransitive)To practise deception by concealment or omission, or by feigning a false appearance; to dissemble.
2. (transitive)To disguise or hide by adopting a false appearance; to dissemble.

   “[P]ublic feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows.”

3. (rare, transitive)To connive at; to wink at; to pretend not to notice.

   “That al thyng be forgiven to theim that be olde and broken, and to theim that be yonge and lusty to dissimulate for a time, and nothyng to be forgiuen to very yong children.”

adj

1. (not-comparable, obsolete)Feigned, simulated, pretended, false.

   “Where they may win ought : by fayre diſimilate ſhow, There they flickar, and flatter, in fauer to grow.”