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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

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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

STRONGEST

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

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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

A hypochondriac by temperament, of mediocre intelligence, incapable of grasping realities, confined to abstractions, crafty and dissimulating, his prevailing note was an excessive pride which increased until his last day.

From The Psychology of Revolution by Le Bon, Gustave

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