What's the difference between disguise and guiser?

Disguise


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Artificial language or manner assumed for deception; false appearance; counterfeit semblance or show.
  • (n.) Change of manner by drink; intoxication.
  • (n.) A masque or masquerade.

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should not be disguised as foreign aid funding,” she said, accusing the former government of introducing the now-repealed carbon tax to pay for contributions to the fund.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.

Guiser


Definition:

  • (n.) A person in disguise; a masker; a mummer.

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