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unmasking

[ UK /ʌnmˈɑːskɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the exposure of an impostor or a fraud
    he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government

How To Use unmasking In A Sentence

  • In a basic sense, the new movement followed his precedent in unmasking the false poses and images of its era in order to refocus attention on the real racial issues facing America.
  • The two most often cited explanations for this phenomenon are unmasking of the effects of deleterious recessive alleles and summation of the dominant effects of multiple loci brought together in the progeny.
  • Footsteps echoed through out the corridor as the light danced over its surface, scouring over the walls, unmasking the darkness and exposing all of the details beneath its harsh brutality.
  • Furthermore, brain scientists have noted the pervasive nature of self-deception and of different species of "confabulation", and they have begun to make progress in unmasking the underlying neurological processes (Hirstein 2005). Emotion
  • About the same hour, the Department of Paris presented an Address to the Convention, congratulating it on the steps it had taken for unmasking plots and traitors, and for once more saving the country from the brink of destruction; and it assured the Convention of its full co-operation in annihilating all seditious men. News Report
  • Both critiques centre on unmasking the supposed disinterestedness of the academic establishment by contending that.
  • He both delights in and is shocked by the games played, unmasking them, playing his own fantastic counter-tricks.
  • The CIA succeeded in unmasking the spy who sold military secrets.
  • But the process here is of unmasking: even though we're irritated and anxious, we're moving closer to seeing the true unfixed nature of mind.
  • It was he who struck a match and carried out the dramatic unmasking of the villain.
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