dissembling
Example Sentences
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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
Mr. Trump began by speaking in his usual discursive, dissembling manner.
From New York Times • May 31, 2024
But altogether, the scope of his lying certainly seems to go beyond dishonesty or dissembling for monetary gain alone.
From Slate • Nov. 28, 2023
The very complexity of her feelings confirmed Briony in her view that she was entering an arena of adult emotion and dissembling from which her writing was bound to benefit.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Vocabulary lists containing dissembling
The Crucible
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Words from Shakespearean Insults
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