masquerading
伪装,伪装的,伪装身份,伪装性
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Definitions
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- : a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes.
- : a costume or disguise worn at such a gathering.
- : false outward show; façade; pretense: a hypocrite's masquerade of virtue.
- : activity, existence, etc., under false pretenses: a rich man's masquerade as a beggar.
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mas·quer·ad·ed, mas·quer·ad·ing.
- : to go about under false pretenses or a false character; assume the character of; give oneself out to be: to masquerade as a former Russian count.
- : to disguise oneself.
- : to take part in a masquerade.
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Examples
Having reviewed anti-Israeli agitprop masquerading as theater, I was prepared to join critics in hating The Death of Klinghoffer.
But this is Clinton-era outrage: political motivations masquerading as moral opprobrium.
Most disputes about music in the current day are actually disagreements about lifestyle masquerading as critical judgments.
The attackers were, in fact, German troops masquerading as Poles.
There was the jab at a blue-haired Liza Minnelli, claiming she was a man in drag masquerading as the Oscar winning legend.
In Italy, on the contrary, all the world is continually occupied in masquerading in some way or other.
Ruefully Aristide asked himself the question: why had the Mayor not taken him into the confidence of his masquerading escapade?
Even cats are now used for fur, usually masquerading under some other name.
It's on Earth now, and on the other planets, down in the storage areas of our big cities, masquerading as rats.
It looked like a piece of masquerading more than the interrogation of three prisoners.