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
“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
Hostile and dissembling witnesses testified against their superiors under relentless pressure from the prosecutors.
From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2022
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
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The Crucible
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