Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

mal disimulando

English translation:

ill disguising his feelings

Added to glossary by Yvonne Becker
Nov 6, 2005 16:23
18 yrs ago
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Spanish term

mal disimulando

Spanish to English Art/Literary Linguistics
Es una expresión en un guión, describiendo la actitud de un personaje.

"Jesús: (**MAL DISIMULANDO**)
Su excelencia, como siempre, me honra, pero sabe que yo no puedo aceptar. Mi puesto... (APOYA SUS MANOS EN LOS HOMBROS DE JUANA) nuestro puesto, es a su lado."

Este personaje no es sincero en lo que dice y sus gestos o actitud lo delantan

Discussion

Yvonne Becker (asker) Nov 6, 2005:
Jos�, se trata exactamente de lo contrario. No es capaz de disimularlos, no los disimula bien

Proposed translations

+8
20 mins
Selected

(ill disguising his feelings)

meaning hardly

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or
(barely disguising his feelings)
Peer comment(s):

agree Daniel Burns (X)
4 mins
agree Rachel Fell
12 mins
agree Clare Macnamara
17 mins
agree Javier Herrera (X)
23 mins
agree Emilie
47 mins
agree Marcelo González : barely disguising his feelings
53 mins
agree franglish
1 hr
agree claudia16 (X)
7 hrs
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11 mins

hardly disguising his intentions

hth
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7 mins

concealing his feelings

an option

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es verdad! sería hardly concealing his feelings
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16 mins

making a bad job of hiding his feelings

sugg.

Steve sat behind her on the bed doing a bad job of hiding his nervousness. ...
Steve was helpless and delighted, free to surrender to all his feelings. ...
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... spend two hours a day doing his hair, the ... to make sure people notice them, doing
a bad job of hiding their disappointment ... then you get to start making light of ...
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rather:

"making a bad/poor job of hiding his real feelings/what he was really thinking"

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or "doing a bad..."
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agree Gabriela Rodriguez : Un gran cariño Rachel!!!!!!!!!
1 hr
Gracias, Gaby!
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+3
49 mins

barely hiding his (feeling)

"I will not!" she replied, barely hiding her disgust.
Peer comment(s):

agree Marcelo González
24 mins
agree Muriel Vasconcellos
1 hr
agree Carmen Riadi
5 hrs
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51 mins

ill-concealed

for me
"My father no longer trusts me," he said, with ill-concealed bitterness. ...
His tone of ill-concealed compassion stung her like a cut from a whip across the back...
Peer comment(s):

agree Chris Williams
3 mins
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1 hr

poorly pretending

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poorly disguising (his feeling)

...
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