dissemble

“This Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims — to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts,” Rufe wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026

But most of us had come to expect our leaders to duck, deal and dissemble until it would be too late.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

The motormouthed Francie turns to the audience with asides and misdirections that dissemble as much as they reveal.

From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2022

You can equivocate, or dissemble, or palter, or mislead, or prevaricate, or fib, or perjure.

From Washington Post ● May 3, 2021

Crooked Ava had not lost her power to dissemble since her days of harassing Cora—she hooted and stomped as if it were the height of the Christmas celebrations.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Evgeny dissembles: “Nothing. It is perhaps the fragrant scent of a passing track team.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

Looking at the tape of her statement, it is remarkable how smoothly she dissembles.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2019

Our country’s most prominent id rarely dissembles what he feels or believes.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2017

It felt like a startlingly on-the-nose metaphor for the strange act of going about routine tasks while the world dissembles.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 3, 2017

Farewel! and may thy Arms as happy prove, As shall my Art, when it dissembles Love.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Montague Summers

He was said to have dissembled when people on the call asked about whether repeat shop lifters or people who commit assaults without a weapon would be prosecuted and face jail terms.

From Fox News ● Jan. 20, 2022

Politicians have exaggerated and dissembled since time immemorial, including in their email dispatches.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2021

Instead, when asked by the media about his own knowledge or participation in the call, Secretary Pompeo dissembled.

From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2019

Caught in a lie, Barr dissembled and tried to split hairs, showing signs of nervousness he's been much better at hiding in the past.

From Salon ● May 1, 2019

He dissembled meanly, congratulating himself on the clever ambiguity with which he had worded his proposal.

From Imprudence by F.E. Mills Young

Then, the dissembling from Burden’s husband, the declarations that it meant nothing, that he still loved her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026

This fits his dissembling about his reason for vetoing the tax-credit bill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

Mr. Trump began by speaking in his usual discursive, dissembling manner.

From New York Times ● May 31, 2024

But altogether, the scope of his lying certainly seems to go beyond dishonesty or dissembling for monetary gain alone.

From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2023

His voice was stark, bereft of the power of dissembling which full consciousness brings.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya