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synonyms for dissembling

  • ambiguous
  • cagey
  • deceptive
  • false
  • misleading
  • unclear
  • vague
  • casuistic
  • casuistical
  • cunning
  • devious
  • elusive
  • elusory
  • equivocating
  • fugitive
  • greasy
  • indirect
  • intangible
  • lying
  • oblique
  • prevaricating
  • shifty
  • shuffling
  • slippery
  • sly
  • sophistical
  • stonewalling
  • acting
  • bluffing
  • cheating
  • concealment
  • counterfeiting
  • covering
  • dissimulation
  • masking
  • pretense
  • simulation
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antonyms for dissembling

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  • clear
  • definite
  • honest
  • truthful
  • direct
  • forthright
  • ready
  • straight
  • straightforward
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                            How to use dissembling in a sentence

                            The tone is too earnest to permit the supposition that Edward was dissembling knowledge of the facts.
                            KING ROBERT THE BRUCEA. F. MURISON
                            Deane tried to laugh but he was not good at dissembling and he was finding it hard to conceal his annoyance at the interruption.
                            FIDELITYSUSAN GLASPELL
                            He was naturally a connoisseur in such matters, and knew well and easily the truth or dissembling in them.
                            SIX WOMENVICTORIA CROSS
                            Dissembling then was Gudrun, against her heart she could speak, made herself gay appear, with two shields she played.
                            THE ELDER EDDAS OF SAEMUND SIGFUSSON; AND THE YOUNGER EDDAS OF SNORRE STURLESONSAEMUND SIGFUSSON AND SNORRE STURLESON
                            Sleep well, Egyptian, and pray to the gods to give you a more equal power of dissembling your feelings.
                            AN EGYPTIAN PRINCESS, COMPLETEGEORG EBERS
                            Sam'l, dissembling no longer, clattered up the common, becoming smaller and smaller to the on-lookers as he neared the top.
                            AULD LICHT IDYLSJ. M. BARRIE
                            They asked me what I wanted; I answered, dissembling my designs, 'Let me see some ribbons.'
                            THE BARBER OF PARISCHARLES PAUL DE KOCK
                            But what needs this dissembling, since you are resolved to quit my mistress to me?
                            DRYDEN'S WORKS VOL. 3 (OF 18)JOHN DRYDEN
                            He knew quite well that his partner was dissembling, but he scarcely saw to what end.
                            A MILLIONAIRE OF YESTERDAYE. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM
                            Timmy's just plain lousy when it comes to dissembling, you know, as if it was completely foreign to him to lie.
                            THE SHORT LIFEFRANCIS DONOVAN
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