Definition of Disguise

Disguise To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive. 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. To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate. 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. Artificial language or manner assumed for deception; false appearance; counterfeit semblance or show. Change of manner by drink; intoxication. A masque or masquerade. Related Definitions: Affect, An, Anger, Appearance, Are, Artificial, As, Assumed, By, Change, Character, Cloak, Conceal, Concealment, Counterfeit, Deceive, Deception, Disguise, Doing, Dress, Drink, Especially, Exterior, False, For, Guise, Heavy, Hide, In, Intended, Intoxicate, Intoxication, Language, Liquor, Manner, Mask, Masque, Masquerade, Mislead, Of, On, One, Or, Penalties, Put, Semblance, Show, Subject, The, To, Unlawful, Unusual

Disguise Quotations Each one of them is Jesus in disguise. Mother Teresa 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. John Locke We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. Blaise Pascal Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. Alexander Pope Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. Bertrand Russell The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. George Santayana As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. Gore Vidal Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise. Erica Jong They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers. Jello Biafra

Disguise Translations disguise in German is Verstellung, verkleide, verkleiden disguise in Italian is travestire disguise in Latin is dissimulo disguise in Norwegian is maskere, forkledning, forkle disguise in Spanish is disfraz, disfrazar