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dissembling

[ UK /dɪsˈɛmblɪŋ/ ]
[ US /dɪˈsɛmbɫɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of deceiving
  2. pretending with intention to deceive

How To Use dissembling In A Sentence

  • Everytime a politician speaks, you know, they're fooling you, they're dissembling.
  • He is bringing back the problem of jesuitical thinking, a mode of thought characterized by "dissembling and equivocating in a manner once associated with Jesuits. Fr. Reese's flawed arguments for Pres. Obama at Notre Dame
  • Before you write anything, before you take their word for anything, you ought to carefully study the possibility that they are dissembling.
  • When he believed in something, he was incapable of dissembling or prevaricating.
  • The media is largely compliant - being so popular, and now in your third term, no-one is game to take you on or push you to answer questions, so you get away with dissembling, even lies.
  • No amount of paranoid dissembling is going to change that reality. All we need is Blog?
  • The male narrators offer the woman's body as the place where they are momentarily free from the pressures of dissembling a myth of themselves.
  • He was criticised by some for "dissembling"? his own word for it? and for allowing blame to fall for a time on his colleague Lesley Stahl. Daniel Schorr obituary
  • So did a certain cafard or dissembling religionary preach at Sinay, that Saint Anthony sent the fire into men’s legs, that Saint Eutropius made men hydropic, Saint Clidas, fools, and that Saint Genou made them goutish. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • Everyone understands politicians are under pressure to disingenuously parrot the party line, but unlike lawyers, their dissembling is never ethically required. The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy
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