The noun guise refers to an outward appearance that conceals the true nature of someone or something. Your classmate might chat with you under the guise of friendship, but you know she's really just looking for juicy gossip.
Customary way of speaking or acting; custom; fashion; manner; behavior; mien; mode; practice; -- often used formerly in such phrases as:
Noun
an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"
n.
Customary way of speaking or acting; custom; fashion;
manner; behavior; mien; mode; practice; -- often used formerly in such
phrases as: at his own guise; that is, in his own fashion, to suit
himself.
n.
External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate
indication or expression; garb; shape.
n.
Cover; cloak; as, under the guise of patriotism.
Guise
The swain replied, "It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise."2.
As then the guise was for each gentle swain.
A . . . specter, in a far more terrific guise than any which ever yet have overpowered the imagination.3.
Customary way of speaking or acting; custom; fashion; manner; behavior; mien; mode; practice; -- often used formerly in such phrases as:
Usage Examples
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.
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Other Usage ExamplesDuring times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again.
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.
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