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dissembling















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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

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

From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2023

Is there not something paranoid and delusional about Lucrezia’s obsession with “his pretense, his dissembling, his lying looks”?

From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2022

Always dissembling, ever inventing, young David Cornwell found the art of disappearing into John le Carré comforting and comfortable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2020

He was not good at dissembling and he was very well understood.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck




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