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Synonyms for guise

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Synonyms for guise

an artful or simulated semblance

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He perceived in the tavern a pert boy between twelve and fifteen years of age whom he fancied he had seen not twenty minutes before under the guise of a chorister.
At another time, he stopped a close-fisted old fellow, of great wealth, but who skulked about the city in the guise of a scarecrow, with a patched blue surtout, brown hat, and mouldy boots, scraping pence together, and picking up rusty nails.
All the band stared and many laughed, for never had they seen their master in such a fantastic guise before.
Meantime, Robin Hood, in his guise of harper, together with Little John and Will Stutely, had come to the church.
In such guise had Pearl adorned herself, when she heard her mother's voice, and came slowly back
A set of gallants, who have been masquerading in such guise as our own, are carrying a band of prisoners thither Watch them closely, for even if they reach the castle before we collect our force, our honour is concerned to punish them, and we will find means to do so.
Now, whilst cheerfully admitting that you have done your best to fulfil that condition, I cannot help feeling that, in presenting the facts in the guise of fiction, you have, in spite of yourself, shown them in a false light.
Then the black girl told him that she too was in the power of the Fairy, who had doomed her to wander about in her present guise until some youth should take pity on her and bear her in safety to the other side of the river which they saw in the distance, and on the other side of which the Fairy's domain and power ended.
"Then to the yard with the whole of them," said the curate; "for to have the burning of Queen Pintiquiniestra, and the shepherd Darinel and his eclogues, and the bedevilled and involved discourses of his author, I would burn with them the father who begot me if he were going about in the guise of a knight-errant."
Even thus, Eaglelike, pantherlike, Are the poet's desires, Are THINE OWN desires 'neath a thousand guises, Thou fool!
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Summary: Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 26 (ANI): Sri Lanka on Thursday ordered a probe into the hazardous material, including clinical waste stored in containers, being imported into the country from Britain under the guise of recyclable metals that has caused a nationwide uproar in recent days.
NNA - The General Security Directorate on Wednesday warned the Lebanese citizens and travel agencies of Israeli enemy recruits who are trying to enter Lebanon under the guise of tourism excursions, in order to carry out spying missions.
Srinagar -- Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti on Monday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of creating a 'fear psychosis' under the guise of national security to prepare for another Balakot-like strike in desperation to win the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.