disimulación

Definitions of disimulación
  1. noun
    the act of deceiving
    synonyms: engaño
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    dilación
    deceitful action that is not straightforward
    ardid, artería, astucia, embaucamiento, estratagema, farfolla, fullería, picaresca, sofisma
    the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
    doble juego, doblez, duplicidad
    acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another
    estafa, fraude, timo, trampa
    a deception for profit to yourself
    ilusión
    the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas
    fachada, fingimiento, simulación
    the act of giving a false appearance
    imitación, impostura
    pretending to be another person
    obscurantismo
    a deliberate act intended to make something obscure
    farol
    the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards
    camelo, engañifa, filfa, inocentada, mistificación, patraña
    something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
    fraude electoral, pucherazo
    an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
    apariencia
    pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression
    simulación
    the enactment of a pretense
    afectación
    a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
    mascarada
    making a false outward show
    type of:
    falsedad, falsificación
    a willful perversion of facts
  2. noun
    a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously
    synonyms: disimulo, sigilo
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