(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should not be disguised as foreign aid funding,” she said, accusing the former government of introducing the now-repealed carbon tax to pay for contributions to the fund.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.
Mislead
Definition:
(v. t.) To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
(2) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(3) The use of 100% oxygen to calculate intrapulmonary shunting in patients on PEEP is misleading in both physiological and methodological terms.
(4) David Cameron was accused of revealing his ill-suppressed Bullingdon Club instincts when he shouted at the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
(5) The derived data lacks specificity, however, and, as such, is frequently misleading.
(6) Families believed that physicians would not listen (13% of sample), would not talk openly (32%), attempted to mislead them (48%), or did not warn about long-term neurodevelopmental problems (70%).
(7) Serological findings in five cases where Paul-Bunnel Davidsohn (PBD) test results were misleading, are presented.
(8) Second, the commonly drawn analogy between blocking in randomized trials and matching in cohort studies is misleading when one considers the impact of matching on covariate distributions.
(9) In an article for the Nation, Chomsky courts controversy by arguing that parallels drawn between campaigns against Israel and apartheid-era South Africa are misleading and that a misguided strategy could damage rather than help Israel's victims.
(10) At the end of the article the Department for Work and Pensions is quoted as saying that it’s “misleading to link food bank use to benefit delays and sanctions”.
(11) The authors argue that these "principles" do not function as claimed, and that their use is misleading both practically and theoretically.
(12) They claim that Zero Dark Thirty is "grossly inaccurate and misleading in its suggestion that torture resulted in information that led to the capture".
(13) The European court of human rights has accused British newspapers, including the Daily Mail, of publishing "seriously misleading" reports.
(14) This report indicates that hepatic copper levels vary greatly in acute liver failure, and that estimates from a single biopsy specimen may be misleading as to the cause of the underlying liver disease.
(15) Maybe the claimants were politicians who took a strict stance on moral issues, or people who had misleadingly used their family image to seek office or commercial gain?
(16) However, in a demonstration of the intense secrecy surrounding NSA surveillance even after Edward Snowden's revelations, the senators claimed they could not publicly identify the allegedly misleading section or sections of a factsheet without compromising classified information.
(17) Again, the government is deliberately misleading the public by aggregating figures over an area which no one would describe as theirs.
(18) But the Tories edited out a crucial final sentence in which Balls told BBC Radio Leeds on 9 January : “But I think we can be tougher and we should be and we will.” Labour seized on the Tory editing of the Balls interview to accuse the Tories of misleading people to defend their refusal to tackle tax avoidance.
(19) We therefore conclude that the clinical management of bronchiolitis requires close monitoring of body wt and plasma osmolality-urinary osmolality relationship; serum sodium levels may be misleading.
(20) It is not only the misleading newspaper headlines about this U-turn which are causing confusion.