dissimulation
Example Sentences
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A senate inquiry into the affair accused the government of a "deliberate strategy" of "dissimulation".
From BBC
But in fact I never found that threshold; I stayed lost in the dissimulations of motherhood, whose privatized nature meant that no honest or legitimate relation to reality could ever again be established.
From New York Times
For the Sankara family the trial is “a chance to heal,” he said — and to establish the realities about a young leader whose story has been blurred by years of mythmaking, dissimulation and lies.
From New York Times
Her dissimulation, Passon added, included having simultaneous husbands on both American coasts.
From New York Times
But more likely Hill was compounding Reagan's dissimulations.
From Salon
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