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disguised

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d?s??a?zd/, /d?z??a?zd/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /d?s??a?zd/, /d??ska?zd/
  • Hyphenation: dis?guised

Verb

disguised

  1. simple past tense and past participle of disguise

Adjective

disguised (comparative more disguised, superlative most disguised)

  1. Wearing a disguise; dressed in strange or unusual clothes, especially to conceal one's identity.
  2. (slang, obsolete) Drunk.
    • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, I.4:
      He was never known to be disguised with liquor […].

Anagrams

  • dugesiids

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charientism

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????????? (kharientismós).

Noun

charientism (uncountable)

  1. (rhetoric, rare) A figure of speech wherein an insult is disguised as or softened by a jest.

References

  • This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.

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