Thesaurus / dissimulation
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I could grudge him, for his knavery and dissimulation, though I do not envy much the having the same place myself.
DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, COMPLETESAMUEL PEPYSArgyle renewed his courtship to the king; and the king, with equal dissimulation, pretended to repose great confidence in Argyle.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN THREE VOLUMES, VOL.I., PART E.DAVID HUMEThis sudden, unexpected fortune so completely turned his head that he forgot his skilful dissimulation.
FILE NO. 113EMILE GABORIAUHelen blushed deeply; dissimulation was a very difficult task to her, and for a moment seemed more than her strength could bear.
THE KNIGHT OF GWYNNE, VOL. II (OF II)CHARLES JAMES LEVERMme. Fauvel, who flattered herself that she had displayed wonderful dissimulation, shook her head.
FILE NO. 113EMILE GABORIAUWith this view, they agreed upon a course of meanness and dissimulation, which involved the most tragical consequences.
FEMALE SCRIPTURE BIOGRAPHIES, VOL. IIFRANCIS AUGUSTUS COXThe arrival of Frances Stuart at Court gave her an opportunity to practise her powers of dissimulation.
COURT BEAUTIES OF OLD WHITEHALLW. R. H. TROWBRIDGEAn angry moralist, like a schoolmaster with a birch, is an incapable instructor; his stripes are resented by dissimulation.
COURT BEAUTIES OF OLD WHITEHALLW. R. H. TROWBRIDGEThe young man had been having some special training in dissimulation, and he did not betray any surprise.
BLOW THE MAN DOWNHOLMAN DAYWithin a few months of her arrival the cool eye of Knox had pierced through the veil of Mary's dissimulation.
HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLEJOHN RICHARD GREENWORDS RELATED TO DISSIMULATION
- Judas kiss
- artifice
- chicanery
- cunning
- deceit
- dirty dealing
- dirty pool
- dirty trick
- dirty work
- dishonesty
- dissemblance
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- dualism
- duality
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- fraud
- guile
- hypocrisy
- one-upmanship
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- skullduggery
- stab in back
- treacherousness
- treachery
- two-facedness
- twoness
- ambiguity
- amphiboly
- casuistry
- coloring
- con
- cop out
- cover
- cover-up
- deceit
- deception
- deceptiveness
- delusion
- dissimulation
- distortion
- double entendre
- double meaning
- double talk
- doubtfulness
- duplicity
- equivocality
- evasion
- fallacy
- fib
- fibbing
- hedging
- lie
- line
- lying
- misrepresentation
- prevarication
- quibbling routine
- runaround
- shuffling
- song
- song and dance
- sophistry
- speciousness
- spuriousness
- stall
- stonewall
- tergiversation
- waffle
- canard
- cover-up
- deceit
- deception
- dishonesty
- dissimulation
- distortion
- equivocation
- erroneousness
- error
- fable
- fabrication
- fakery
- fallaciousness
- fallacy
- falseness
- falsity
- feigning
- fib
- fibbery
- fiction
- figment
- fraud
- half-truth
- hogwash
- line
- mendacity
- misstatement
- perjury
- pretense
- prevarication
- sham
- story
- tale
- tall tale
- untruism
- untruth
- untruthfulness
- whopper
- yarn
- 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
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