Words and phrases that have a meaning related to dissembling: (140 results)
Often used in the same context:
obfuscation, duplicity, prevarication, mendacity, deceptions, sophistry, doublespeak, deviousness, doubletalk, dissimulation, evasions, disingenuousness, obtuseness, circumlocution, incompetence, mendacious, dishonesty, venality, demagoguery, hypocrisy, illogic, perfidy, underhandedness, subterfuge, bamboozlement, craven, hairsplitting, untruths, deceit, pusillanimity, nefariousness, sophistical, deceitful, evasiveness, falsehood, revisionism, fecklessness, foolishness, arrogance, posturing, machinations, temporized, spinelessness, charlatanry, untrustworthiness, glib, fibber, ineffectuality, contemptible, dilatory, shameless, boneheadedness, exculpating, dishonest, caviling, stupidity, prolixity, incuriosity, sleaziness, speciousness, parroting, groveling, bootlicking, doublethink, weasel words, hyperbole, misspeaking, mealymouthed, chicanery, hectoring, opportunism, tone deafness, casuistry, equivocating, inarticulateness, clintonian, demonization, duplicitous, scapegoating, clownishness, bluster, pedantry, disinformation, bafflegab, inexactitude, corruptness, disingenuity, cynical, facetiousness, imposture, insincerity, baldfaced, cowardice, lawyerly, idiocy, tu quoque, bombast, extenuation, irrationality, knavery, simpleminded, legalistic, equivocation, guile, evasion, deception, disguise, sinning, concealment, misrepresentation, pretense, cheating, harassment, mystification, artifice
More specific:
bluff, cheat, double-dealing, fakery, feigning, four flush, head game, illusion, impersonation, indirection, lip service, obscurantism, pretence, pretending, pretext, shenanigan, simulation, stalking-horse, trickery, wile
Appears in the definition of:
remount
More general:
falsification
Synonyms:
Also try:dissimulating, dissimulative, insincere
— Adjectives for dissembling: such, much, excellent, more, mere, own, little, most, further, deep, artful, more...
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