Mask
Profess
Profess verb - To present a false appearance of.
Usage example: professed friendship while secretly plotting revenge
Common collocations
| feelings | mask feelings | profess feelings |
Both words in one sentence
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The villain himself will usually profess not to be impressed by these African superstitions — but there's never been more than a handful who haven't lost their nerve at the last moment and decided to leave the mask on, and they all died a horrible death not long after.
Source: Comic Strip / The Phantom
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