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present participle of dissimulate.

dissimulating

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insincere adj.
lying adj.
mala fide adj.
perjurious adj.
phoniness n.

ADJECTIVE

insincere

Synonyms

STRONGEST

deceitful devious disingenuous evasive false hypocritical phony untruthful

WEAK

ambidextrous backhanded deceptive dissembling double double-dealing duplicitous faithless fake hollow lying mendacious perfidious pretentious put on shifty slick sly snide two-faced unfaithful untrue

Antonyms

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actual direct forthright frank genuine honest just open real reliable sincere straight straightforward trustworthy truthful upright

ADJECTIVE

lying

Synonyms

STRONGEST

misleading

STRONG

dissembling double-crossing double-dealing equivocating falsifying fibbing inventing misrepresenting misstating prevaricating two-timing wrong

WEAK

committing perjury deceitful deceptive delusive delusory false guileful mendacious perfidious shifty treacherous tricky two-faced unreliable untruthful

Antonyms

STRONG

honest

WEAK

direct frank

ADJECTIVE

mala fide

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ambidextrous backhanded deceitful deceptive devious disingenuous dissembling double double-dealing duplicitous evasive faithless fake false hollow hypocritical left-handed lying mendacious perfidious phony pretentious put on shifty slick sly snide two-faced unfaithful untrue untruthful

ADJECTIVE

perjurious

Synonyms

WEAK

committing perjury deceitful deceptive delusive delusory dissembling double-crossing double-dealing equivocating false falsifying fibbing forsworn guileful inventing mendacious misleading misrepresenting misstating perfidious perjured prevaricating shifty treacherous tricky two-faced two-timing unreliable untruthful wrong

NOUN

phoniness

Synonyms

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ambidexterity ambidextrous artificiality backhanded deceitful deceptive devious disingenuous disingenuousness dissembling double double-dealing duplicitous evasive faithless fake false hollow hypocritical lying mendacious perfidious phony pretentious put on shifty slick sly snide two-faced unfaithful untrue untruthful

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dissimulating

I’m sure Vikram has a high IQ, but did not display good judgment in dissimulating to me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026

Given this particular movie, she presumably also lectures on “Cyrano de Bergerac” and topics like the dissimulating heroine.

From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2021

She herself was dissimulating each day, biding her time until she could just get out.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 26, 2019

On the contrary, it is the very heart of society's real unreality, capable of infinitely executing itself, and endlessly dissimulating the absence of the real.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2018

"Don't forget, now," a plainly dissimulating laugh was heard.

From The Awakening The Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, Count

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