Guise meaning

Noun: guise

Pronunciation: (gIz)

Guise meaning: An artful or simulated semblance

Synonyms: camouflage, disguise, mask, pretense

Quotations: Henry Miller – There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Learned Hand – What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition.

Kate Chopin – I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

Hannah Arendt – The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

Bill Gates – There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and movie makers and software makers under various guises. They don’t think that those incentives should exist.

George W. Bush – Iran armed with a nuclear weapon poses a grave threat to the security of the world. And, countries such as ours have an obligation to step up, working together, sending a common message to the Iranians that the behaviour trying clandestinely to develop a nuclear weapon, or using the guise of a civilian nuclear weapon program to get the know-how to develop a nuclear weapon, is unacceptable.

Sample sentences:

1. If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
2. During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
3. He was referring to their behavior. Our concern is their intention is to develop a nuclear weapon under the guise of a civilian program.
4. Content will still be king, although it may come in many new guises. And the Los Angeles area is well positioned to create this evolving content.
5. Certainly, the loss of revenue for clubs and other groups is an issue that we’re going to be concerned about. But do we do the right thing, or do we hide it under the guise of economics?
6. Those who seek to criticize this legislation under the guise of environmental concerns have it backwards as the use of the authority is specifically to protect public health.
7. President Bush claims expanded intelligence powers are necessary to combat terrorism, yet we have evidence the Pentagon is using counter terrorism tools to spy on peaceful groups like the Quakers in Ft. Lauderdale. Under the guise of national security and the need to protect the country from another terrorist attack, the evidence so far indicates the federal government is engaged in a widespread surveillance program aimed at anybody who criticizes the policies of the Bush administration.
8. The intent was to try to get a control on the pirates who are coming in here under the guise of parents, team personnel, who are taking photographs and selling them and capitalizing on the tournament.
9. Throughout this case, the government has denied evidence for purely tactical reasons under the guise of national security.
10. I hope they put them in prison for a long time. We cannot tolerate people transporting illegal aliens under the guise of humanitarian aid.