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
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
But altogether, the scope of his lying certainly seems to go beyond dishonesty or dissembling for monetary gain alone.
From Slate • Nov. 28, 2023
He also stumbled, early in the pandemic, by dissembling and stonewalling after nearly $10 million worth of covid-19 testing kits he ordered from South Korea turned out to be unusable.
From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2023
That day, however, as Mary Jackson ran into Kazimierz Czarnecki on the west side of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, there was no turning inward, no subversion, and no dissembling.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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