dissembling
Example Sentences
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Then, the dissembling from Burden’s husband, the declarations that it meant nothing, that he still loved her.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026
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
That dissembling fits a pattern in the officers’ defense, which has relied on a rendering of events plainly contradicted by video evidence.
From Washington Post • Aug. 14, 2021
His voice was stark, bereft of the power of dissembling which full consciousness brings.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
Vocabulary lists containing dissembling
The Crucible
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Words from Shakespearean Insults
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