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dissembling

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adjective

dissembling

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verb

present participle of dissemble

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissembling
Noun
  • In another case, Balmer pleaded guilty in 2016 to forgery and theft by deception charges, court documents show.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Imposter syndrome is an internal struggle with feeling like a fraud despite being qualified, whereas career catfishing is an active deception.
    Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The deceit and deception is positively intoxicating to this longtime reality competition fan.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The campaign registers domains that are close enough to legitimate websites to trick users into clicking, or at least to stop them flagging the deceit.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • This prompt gives you enough talking points to contribute thoughtfully without pretending to be an expert.
    Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Interspersed in the narrative, there are South Asian folktales about a jackal who is punished for pretending to be a king and a foolish man who puts all his eggs in a basket.
    Malaka Gharib, NPR, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Her unsettling command of the character — who was equal parts sweet, vulnerable, mendacious, and menacing — was one of the highlights of the series.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The candidate vying for a second White House stint — in the midst of his third overall campaign — has accumulated a long list of acts who do not want to be associated with his divisive, frequently mendacious rhetoric.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • At the same time, Representative Newt Gingrich from Georgia was already in ascent, assuming the position of House Minority Whip in March 1989.
    Eli Amdur, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
  • The new policy also takes quite a leap by assuming that most of the nation’s elderly population have ever even heard of Twitter, including the New Jersey caller’s 96-year-old mother.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The panel also agreed Way acted with malice, oppression or fraud, and awarded her another $250,000 in punitive damages.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2025
  • In the aftermath of Appomattox, ex-Confederates moved quickly, using propaganda, fraud, and terrorism, to preempt Black freedom and impose a system akin to slavery.
    Made by History, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The hypocrisies of what might be called humanity’s delusions of superiority suggest the need for deeper questioning.
    Billy J. Stratton, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The scale of hypocrisy here is staggering.
    Wal van Lierop, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The characters are petty, duplicitous, conniving — and also, somehow, strangely sympathetic.
    Calum Marsh, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Othello star Jake Gyllenhaal’s backstage home-away-from-home in Broadway’s Barrymore theater is an extension of the Shakespearean world he’s been steeped in while developing his version of Iago, the duplicitous ensign to the titular Venetian army general played by Denzel Washington.
    Charlotte Collins, Architectural Digest, 24 Mar. 2025
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“Dissembling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissembling. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.

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