dissemble

“This Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims — to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts,” Rufe wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026

But most of us had come to expect our leaders to duck, deal and dissemble until it would be too late.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

Decks of cards propagate, fly, dissemble and reconstitute after being shredded.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022

In what was effectively their last shot at convincing jurors, each side framed their arguments around the question of whether Ms. Holmes, 37, had deliberately chosen to lie, mislead and dissemble about her start-up.

From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2021

I would remember to dissemble for short periods, then I would forget and act straight and human again, not with the desire to harm anybody, but merely forgetting the artificial status of race and class.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

Evgeny dissembles: “Nothing. It is perhaps the fragrant scent of a passing track team.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

Maradona, young and handsome, dissembles for a moment, before the president of the club, Corrado Ferlaino, steps in to reject the notion with full-throated anger.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 13, 2019

Looking at the tape of her statement, it is remarkable how smoothly she dissembles.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2019

Our country’s most prominent id rarely dissembles what he feels or believes.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2017

Well said, Dunstan: but what merits he, that dissembles with his sovereign?

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by William Carew Hazlitt

As is evidently his habit, Walker dissembled, while throwing in some incomprehensible commentary.

From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2022

He was said to have dissembled when people on the call asked about whether repeat shop lifters or people who commit assaults without a weapon would be prosecuted and face jail terms.

From Fox News ● Jan. 20, 2022

Politicians have exaggerated and dissembled since time immemorial, including in their email dispatches.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2021

“I bent over backwards to try to work with the administration, but they delayed, dissembled, and degraded our committee’s efforts.”

From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 2019

It occurred to Alison that her hostess might have gone to see, but she was half annoyed with Thorne when she noticed his badly dissembled grin.

From A Prairie Courtship by Harold Bindloss

This fits his dissembling about his reason for vetoing the tax-credit bill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

Veiel’s inquiry becomes a time capsule from the 20th century with creepy echoes in our current era of corrosive dissembling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025

“Family Plan,” starring Mark Wahlberg as the dissembling patriarch, plays it for laughs, using his deception and its unraveling as a springboard for screwball comedy.

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2023

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