1. guise - Noun
2. guise - Verb
3. Guise - Proper noun
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.
External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape.
Cover; cloak; as, under the guise of patriotism.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. Honoré de Balzac
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. Edmund Burke
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. Hannah Arendt
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise. Gwendolyn Brooks
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue. Erich Fromm
But may not truth in laughing guise be dressed? French Proverb