dissembling
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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
Some Russians also said Mr. Zelensky was dissembling.
From New York Times • May 11, 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
“Ah well,” I said, dissembling, “perhaps I exaggerate. If they return we shall have a fine dowry for our daughter, and that is indeed a good thing.”
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
Vocabulary lists containing dissembling
The Crucible
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