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Definition of Cloaked

1. Adjective. Having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading. "Masked threat"

2. Adjective. Covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak. "Cloud-wrapped peaks"

Definition of Cloaked

1. Adjective. Wearing a cloak. ¹

2. Adjective. Covered, hidden, disguised. ¹

3. Verb. (past of cloak) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cloaked

1. cloak [v] - See also: cloak

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloaked

clivus clivus ocularis clm cloacae cloacal cloacal membrane cloacal theory cloacas cloacin cloacitis

cloak cloak-and-dagger cloaked (current term) cloakedly cloaking cloaking device cloaking devices cloakings cloakless cloaklike

cloakmaker cloakmakers cloakroom cloakrooms cloaks cloam cloams

Literary usage of Cloaked

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States by Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1835)
"... religious opinion in the secular journals favors this foreign attack—Political designs not to be shielded from attack because cloaked by religion. ..."

2. Applied Socialism: A Study of the Application of Socialistic Principles to by John Spargo (1912)
"... practiced what is called " Free Love." Nor need we resort to the Tu quoque! argument, easy as that would be. That vice cloaked by religion has existed, ..."

3. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1880)
"... and at the other of an idle, genteel place, half-cloaked with creepers at Behind the mill door, and invisible to the mere wayfarer who did not visit the ..."

4. Applied Socialism: A Study of the Application of Socialistic Principles to by John Spargo (1912)
"That vice cloaked by religion has existed, under Catholic and Protestant rule alike, no candid student of history can deny. It has found shelter in the ..."

5. The Light and Dark of the Rebellion by Charles Edwards Lester (1863)
"cloaked Foes—Croakers, and all other Secessionists. No war ever began with greater unanimity than this. The mighty heart of the people leaped at a single ..."

6. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1866)
"Could the pharisaic horror of low vice, and exposed vice, but be transferred for a year to lofty vice, and vice cloaked in the garb of decorum, ..."

7. Six Years in the Monasteries of Italy: And Two Years in the Islands of the by S I Mahoney (1854)
"... instructions—Cunning of his holiness, cloaked under a love fur the souls of the ... cloaked ..."

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