What's the difference between cloaked and disguised?

Cloaked


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Cloak

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But when people's jobs, homes and businesses are in jeopardy, it is not enough for the prime minister and the chancellor to use the eurozone crisis as a cloak to hide their lack of action.
  • (2) Winston Churchill, when he was offered the role of minister of the local government board in 1906, commented: "There is no place more laborious, more anxious, more thankless, more cloaked with petty and even squalid detail, more full of hopeless and insoluble difficulties."
  • (3) I can't pull an invisibility cloak over my house – nor would I wish to," she said, a little wistfully, as if she really wished she had Harry Potter's magic powers.
  • (4) Wearing royal blue cloaks with pointed hoods, the boys line up beside the road in a small village just outside the city of Ségou, chanting in unison.
  • (5) The most promising addition is the under-construction National Museum of African American History and Culture, designed by the British architect David Adjaye and scheduled to open in 2015, which cloaks a modernist structure with shimmering bronze-coated decorative panels.
  • (6) Brennan's testimony theoretically represents a rare chance to learn more about drone killing, warrantless wiretapping, torture, rendition, foreign meddling and other odd cloak-and-daggery.
  • (7) "The only reason they thought they could get away with it was because they had a guaranteed cloak of secrecy.
  • (8) We, and the public, cannot meaningfully evaluate execution protocol cloaked in secrecy.
  • (9) There's the odd scene where he's scrambling around naked, but it's cloaked in a more intelligent context.
  • (10) I will put prices up if I suddenly want a velvet cloak or a bejewelled cock ring.
  • (11) Images of her being dragged and stomped on - her black abaya cloak torn open to reveal her naked torso and blue bra - became a rallying symbol for the revolution and undermined the interim military rulers who held power between Mubarak's fall and Morsi's rise.
  • (12) His small frame could be seen following the tree line until eventually it was swallowed by the dense forest cloaking the border.
  • (13) The hypothesis is advanced that while the Hawaiian Islands contain one of the world's largest percentages of endemic species in the flora, only a few of these species were used for illnesses, though many endemic species were used for building, tapa making, and the foundation of the elaborate and renowned feather cloaks.
  • (14) However the value of training at altitude for competition at sea level appears on the one hand to lack total acceptance amongst sports scientists; and on the other to hold some cloak of mystery for coaches who have yet to enjoy first hand experience.
  • (15) It’s like bike sharers are given a cloak of visibility when they set out on a journey.
  • (16) The pair, whose identities have not been revealed, were dressed in white robes and bowed their heads as they were whipped by officials wearing brown cloaks and masks with eye slits.
  • (17) We acknowledge the complexity and elegance of the theoretical substance and program algorithms of existing work in these disciplines, while simultaneously observing that many presentations of this material cloak the essential facts and concepts in unnecessary jargon and hyperbole.
  • (18) No mention of UK Muslim women who are unhappy with this antisocial black cloak.
  • (19) Ermine cloaks the coalition's first post-local election test on Wednesday.
  • (20) Those sentiments had been echoed in the seemingly very different context of Qom, the centre of Shia religious studies, where most women move about in full-length black cloaks – the chadors that are the ultimate expression of Shia modesty.

Disguised


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Disguise

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Put simply, there would have to be evidence that ultra-low oil prices are having only a temporary downward impact on inflation and have helped disguise upward pressure on wages caused by falling unemployment.
  • (2) Watson asked if the donations from Grugeon and McCloy were disguised, “because they were both gentlemen who could make money if they had a favourable decision in respect of Wallalong”.
  • (3) The retail consultancy said there was no disguising that 2008 was "an annus horribilis" for the retail sector and there was little prospect of improvement in 2009.
  • (4) The damning comments by Judge Alistair McCreath both vindicated Contostavlos – who insisted she was entrapped by the reporter into promising to arrange a cocaine deal – and potentially brought down the curtain on the long and controversial career of Mahmood, better known as the "fake sheikh" after one of his common disguises.
  • (5) Her most notorious performance came during the Falklands war of 1982 when she made little or no effort to disguise her distaste for American diplomatic support of Britain.
  • (6) Climate change funding should not be disguised as foreign aid funding,” she said, accusing the former government of introducing the now-repealed carbon tax to pay for contributions to the fund.
  • (7) The litigation revealed that Mr Mercer, who had a history of infiltrating peace groups such as CND, had disguised his dealings with BAE from his home in Loughborough.
  • (8) But in their second half Osborne will struggle to disguise how many more people he is deliberately sending deeper into all too real danger.
  • (9) Senior colleagues don’t much disguise their feeling that there are better ways to spend that sort of money.
  • (10) Police said they found wigs, glasses and other disguises in his room.
  • (11) Disguised as "trainers", these lethal aircraft were used against the villages of East Timor.
  • (12) He was a master of disguise, as he demonstrated in the Ealing comedy Kind Hearts And Coronets (1949), with a multiplicity of roles.
  • (13) Strachan, whose shyness is routinely disguised by attempts at comedy, responded with a wave.
  • (14) Dr John Philpott, director of The Jobs Economist , said the scale of mental health issues could be even higher, though disguised by employees giving other reasons for their absence.
  • (15) Too much, perhaps: my next book features, in thin disguise, Ken Tynan.
  • (16) Owing to its confusional characteristics, envy is always subtly disguised and hardly ever appears in a straightforward manner.
  • (17) If so, it will provide the most compelling evidence yet that the News of the World's "rogue reporter" defence was a ruse designed to disguise the true extent of phone hacking at the paper.
  • (18) Previous research on the use of disguise in structured tests of psychopathology is extended to a clinical population.
  • (19) Dissociated and disguised measures of academic preferences and perceptions completed weeks later produced even more dramatic results: The continuing impact of initial outcomes was generally greater for discounting than no-discounting subjects.
  • (20) She is Odysseus's protector in the Odyssey, on hand to provide magical disguises or pep-talks.

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