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dissemblingnoun the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickerya crafty child given to frequent dissembling to get what she wants artifice, cheating, cozenage, craft, craftiness, crookedness, crookery, cunning, cunningness, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, fakery, foxiness, fraud, guile, guilefulness, wiliness equivocation, lying, mendacity, prevaricationchicane, chicanery, fraudulence, hanky-panky, jugglery, legerdemain, mountebankery, obliquity, skulduggery(or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickery, wilefalsehood, falsity, fib, untruthhypocrisy, insincerity, sanctimoniousness, two-facednessartfulness, caginess(also cageyness), deviousness, shrewdnesstreacherousness, underhandedness, unscrupulousnesscovertness, furtiveness, secrecy, shadiness, sneakiness, stealthinessoiliness, shiftiness, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, smoothness artlessness, forthrightness, good faith, guilelessness, ingenuousness, sincerity candidness, candor, directness, frankness, openness, plainness, plainspokennesshonesty, probitydependability, reliability, reliableness, solidity, trustability, trustiness, trustworthinessdecency, goodness, incorruptibility, integrity, righteousness, truthfulness, uprightness, virtuousness the pretending of having virtues, principles, or beliefs that one in fact does not havein the end the preacher's smarmy dissembling is discovered, and he is exposed as a fraud cant, dissimulation, hypocrisy, insincerity, piousness deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, double-dealing, falsity, perfidy, two-facednessaffectation, affectedness, pretense(or pretence), pretension, pretentiousness, sanctimoniousness, self-righteousness, self-satisfactionduplicity, fakery, falseness, fraudulentness, shammingartificiality, glibness, oiliness, smoothness, unctuousness genuineness, sincereness, sincerity candor, directness, forthrightness, frankness, honesty, openheartedness, openness, probity, straightforwardness, truthfulnessartlessness, guilelessness, naturalness, unaffectedness dissemblingverbpresent participle of dissembleto present a false appearance ofhe dissembled happiness at the news that his old girlfriend was getting married—to someone else acting, affecting, assuming, bluffing, counterfeiting, faking, feigning, passing (for), pretending, professing, putting on, shamming, simulating dissimulating, impersonating, letting on, masquerading, playacting, playing, posingforging, imitatingcamouflaging, concealing, disguising, maskingfeintingmalingering making believe to take on a false or deceptive appearancechildren learn to dissemble at a surprisingly early age dissimulating, letting on, making out, pretending acting, impersonating, masquerading, playacting, playing, posingaffecting, assuming, counterfeiting, faking, feigning, professing, putting on, shamming, simulatingcamouflaging, concealing, disguising, maskingbluffing, feinting making a pretense, making a show, making believe, putting on an act, putting up a front |