Definition of "dissimulative" []

• Relating to or characterized by pretense or dissimulation: as, a dissimulative life; dissimulative arts.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Allen is as vacuous, dissimulative, intellectually shallow, and authoritarian by impulse as Bush, without Bushes apparent lack of racism and sexism -- Bush's only redeeming qualities."
• "Often on the front-line of such dissimulative activities, this arguably qualifies a trained private investigator to be in the elite in understanding human behaviour, particularly when there is reasonable cause for suspicion."
• "Unless one is truly talented in the dissimulative arts (or alternatively, truly a sociopath), this is something that cannot, ultimately, be faked (or at least not for long)."