dissembling

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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

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

That day, however, as Mary Jackson ran into Kazimierz Czarnecki on the west side of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, there was no turning inward, no subversion, and no dissembling.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly