disguise

Object

• origin: For many, RP has long served to disguise origins.
• fact: For many, it can be hard to disguise the fact beyond a few weeks.
• contempt: About how Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, and British soldiers beating unarmed Iraqi teenagers have exposed our thinly disguised contempt for justice.
• taste: Medieval food was also served with a variety of sauces which also disguised the salty taste.
• smell: The elder leaves ought to stop the flea beetle, because they will disguise the smell of the rocket plants.
• truth: Is he really writing fiction so he can disguise the truth, as some say?

Converse of object

• don: About 75 anti-fascists waited out the lecture and Irving, donning a disguise, tried desperately for half an hour to leave without notice.

Preposition: as

• beggar: The swineherd will lead me to the city later, disguised as a wretched old beggar.
• civilian: Could they offer political opinions for broadcast or publication while on duty but disguised as civilians?
• boy: At first you think the novel is about a teenage girl who learns kung fu in secret and travels in disguise as a boy.

Adjective modifier

• cunning: As ninja were not only assassins but also spies they had to adopt cunning disguises so that they could pass into enemy territory unnoticed.
• thin: This last objective has nothing to do with competition policy and is in fact the opposite: protection in thin disguise.

Modifying Another Word

• thinly: Many of my stories are set in thinly disguised London locations.
• cunningly: The educational element is so cunningly disguised in the games and puzzles that the children are unaware how much they are learning.
• cleverly: This was a cleverly disguised swimming pool area with dry ice giving a very nice effect.
• barely: What set them apart was the harsh edge that barely disguised accents brought.
• in: Pius IX, now Blessed, had been forced to flee Rome in disguise to save his very life.
• heavily: Also aboard is a heavily disguised Detective-Inspector Coutts who's on the track of a jewel thief named Joe Banks.

Noun used with modifier

• Satan: And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.

Used with why or when

• who: They are monsters in disguise who live among us.