Thesaurus / dissembling
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synonyms for dissembling
- affect
- camouflage
- cloak
- conceal
- counterfeit
- cover
- dissimulate
- fake
- falsify
- feign
- hide
- mask
- pass
- pussyfoot
- sham
- shroud
- signify
- simulate
- stonewall
- whitewash
- cover up
- double-talk
- doublespeak
- dress up
- four-flush
- let on
- make like
- play possum
- put on a false front
- put on a front
- put on an act
- put up a front
- put up a smoke screen
- shuck and jive
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The tone is too earnest to permit the supposition that Edward was dissembling knowledge of the facts.
KING ROBERT THE BRUCEA. F. MURISONDeane tried to laugh but he was not good at dissembling and he was finding it hard to conceal his annoyance at the interruption.
FIDELITYSUSAN GLASPELLHe was naturally a connoisseur in such matters, and knew well and easily the truth or dissembling in them.
SIX WOMENVICTORIA CROSSDissembling 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 STURLESONSleep well, Egyptian, and pray to the gods to give you a more equal power of dissembling your feelings.
AN EGYPTIAN PRINCESS, COMPLETEGEORG EBERSSam'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. BARRIEThey asked me what I wanted; I answered, dissembling my designs, 'Let me see some ribbons.'
THE BARBER OF PARISCHARLES PAUL DE KOCKBut what needs this dissembling, since you are resolved to quit my mistress to me?
DRYDEN'S WORKS VOL. 3 (OF 18)JOHN DRYDENHe knew quite well that his partner was dissembling, but he scarcely saw to what end.
A MILLIONAIRE OF YESTERDAYE. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIMTimmy's just plain lousy when it comes to dissembling, you know, as if it was completely foreign to him to lie.
THE SHORT LIFEFRANCIS DONOVANWORDS RELATED TO DISSEMBLING
- affected
- artificial
- assuming
- bland
- canting
- captious
- caviling
- deceptive
- deluding
- dissembling
- double
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- faithless
- false
- feigning
- fishy
- fraudulent
- glib
- hollow
- insincere
- jivey
- left-handed
- lying
- moralistic
- oily
- pharisaic
- pharisaical
- phony
- pietistic
- pious
- sanctimonious
- self-righteous
- smooth
- smooth-spoken
- smooth-tongued
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- two-faced
- unctuous
- unnatural
- unreliable
- affectation
- bad faith
- bigotry
- cant
- casuistry
- deceit
- deception
- dishonesty
- display
- dissembling
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- false profession
- falsity
- fraud
- glibness
- imposture
- insincerity
- irreverence
- lie
- lip service
- mockery
- pharisaicalness
- pharisaism
- phoniness
- pietism
- quackery
- sanctimoniousness
- sanctimony
- speciousness
- unctuousness
- affected
- artificial
- assuming
- bland
- canting
- captious
- caviling
- deceptive
- deluding
- dissembling
- double
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- faithless
- false
- feigning
- fishy
- fraudulent
- glib
- hollow
- insincere
- jivey
- left-handed
- lying
- moralistic
- oily
- pharisaical
- phony
- pietistic
- pious
- sanctimonious
- self-righteous
- smooth
- smooth-spoken
- smooth-tongued
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- two-faced
- unctuous
- unnatural
- unreliable
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.