dissembling
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9.9
- noun
- /dɪˈzɛmblɪŋ/
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disimulación
- 21. As dissembling slid into truth-telling, the other alleged Familists followed suit, each signing their name to a canned statement of acknowledgment and confession.
Examples
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An example of dissembling is equivocation.
Blog text (5) -
In the middle of that disaster, with so much terrible design and political dissembling, there was heroism of the highest order.
Blog text (20) -
Dissembling is a common tool of the anger junkie.
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Bottom line, Romney's economic dissembling just doesn't make any sense for America!
Blog text (9) -
This is the same kind of misdirection and dissembling that defines the right-wing media machine.
Blog text (23) -
If this happens, these objectives will help our democratic system avoid the paralysis and dissembling that has often characterized U.S. risk management decisions in the past.
Academic text (1996) -
And the dissembling is aimed at the American citizenry, not at Saddam Hussein.
Academic text (2003) -
Your dissembling would be comical in a well-informed society, but our media fails miserably and your propaganda works.
Blog text (8) -
Lenard Ramsey soon leveled many of the same charges against Knewstub himself: perfectionism, dissembling, sedition, and interpreting biblical truth as fable.
Academic text (2018) -
His dissembling during the interview made it difficult to understand his true intentions.
Synonyms
163
3.9
An action that makes someone believe something not true
129
5.9
A way of acting that hides how a person really feels
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7.4
A false show that hides what is really happening
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4.6
Dishonest action meant to trick someone
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6.1
A false claim or action to hide the truth
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7.7
A clever trick to deceive someone
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3.9
An outward appearance that hides someone's real identity or intentions
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4.9
To use dishonest ways to cheat people
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9.5
A trick or excuse to hide the real reason
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7.4
Actions that hide the truth by making things look better
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7.1
An action or statement that hides the real reason behind something
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6.8
A false appearance that hides someone's true feelings or plans
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6.8
A thing or action made to trick people into thinking it is real
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8.8
A way of hiding the truth by pretending to be less involved
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9.8
The act of hiding true feelings or thoughts to fool others
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9.5
To pretend to be someone else to trick people
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7.4
Pretending to have an illness or feeling to trick others
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4.1
A way of acting to make others believe something that is not true
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7.2
A quality that makes something seem true when it is false
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7.1
Dishonest behavior of pretending one thing but doing another
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9.6
Pretending to be someone else or making up a false reason to get private information
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9.7
Dishonest words or actions that try to trick people
To hide your true feelings or intentions from other people
Act of showing a friendly face while hiding true feelings
Dishonest actions that try to trick people
To make false information, for example in documents or results, to trick people
Antonyms
How Concealing
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dissembling comes from parts that mean 'not' and 'appearance'. The root sembl appears in the word semblance ('appearance'), and the prefix dis- suggests 'not' or 'away', so dissembling is putting on a false appearance to hide your real feelings.