DISGUISED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disguised mean? 

• DISGUISED (adjective)
  The adjective DISGUISED has 1 sense:

1. having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading

  Familiarity information: DISGUISED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISGUISED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading

Synonyms:

cloaked; disguised; masked

Context example:

masked threat

Similar:

covert (secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed)

 Context examples 

Fanny looked on and listened, not unamused to observe the selfishness which, more or less disguised, seemed to govern them all, and wondering how it would end.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He snatched off the dark beard which had disguised him and threw it on the ground, disclosing a long, sallow, clean-shaven face below it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken; but where, as in this case, though the conduct is mistaken, the feelings are not, it may not be very material.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

With the connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the girl’s short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off other lovers by making love himself.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The windows were curtainless, and the yellow moonlight, flooding in through the diamond panes, enabled one to see even colours, whilst it softened the wealth of dust which lay over all and disguised in some measure the ravages of time and the moth.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Her penetrative virginity exalted and disguised his own emotions, elevating his thoughts to a star-cool chastity, and he would have been startled to learn that there was that shining out of his eyes, like warm waves, that flowed through her and kindled a kindred warmth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

At the time he was lost in admiration at the deft way in which the jongleur disguised the loss of his two missing strings, and the lusty, hearty fashion in which he trolled out his little ballad of the outland bowmen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No one knew me, for I disguised my voice, and no one dreamed of the silent, haughty Miss March (for they think I am very stiff and cool, most of them, and so I am to whippersnappers) could dance and dress, and burst out into a 'nice derangement of epitaphs, like an allegory on the banks of the Nile'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"Now," he continued, again addressing me, "I have received the pilgrim—a disguised deity, as I verily believe. Already it has done me good: my heart was a sort of charnel; it will now be a shrine."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I knew Mr. Rochester; though the begrimed face, the disordered dress (his coat hanging loose from one arm, as if it had been almost torn from his back in a scuffle), the desperate and scowling countenance, the rough, bristling hair might well have disguised him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)