Disguise meaning

Noun: disguise

Pronunciation: (dis’gIz)

Disguise meaning:

• An outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something.
• Any attire that modifies the appearance in order to conceal the wearer’s identity.
• The act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance.

Synonyms: camouflage, guise, mask

Verb: disguise

Disguise meaning:

• Make unrecognizable. Synonym: mask
• Hold back and keep from being perceived by others. Synonyms: conceal, hold back, hold in

Quotations: Sri Chinmoy – You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.

Leo Tolstoy – Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

Wyndham Lewis – With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called ‘the Public’, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

William Penn – Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise. Their praise is costly, designing to get by those they bespeak. They are the worst of creatures; they lie to flatter and flatter to cheat, and, which is worse, if you believe them, you cheat yourselves most dangerously.

John Locke – 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.

Sample sentences:

1. Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me.
2. Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
3. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
4. What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
5. We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
6. There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
7. We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
8. Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes.
9. We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
10. Even when people try to disguise their speech, there are still characteristics of their own speech.