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DISSEMBLING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of deceiving
Synonyms:
deceit; deception; dissembling; dissimulation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("dissembling" is a kind of...):
falsification; misrepresentation (a willful perversion of facts)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dissembling"):
fakery (the act of faking (or the product of faking))
indirection (deceitful action that is not straightforward)
chicane; chicanery; guile; shenanigan; trickery; wile (the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them))
double-dealing; duplicity (acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another)
cheat; cheating (a deception for profit to yourself)
delusion; head game; illusion (the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas)
feigning; pretence; pretending; pretense; simulation (the act of giving a false appearance)
impersonation; imposture (pretending to be another person)
obscurantism (a deliberate act intended to make something obscure)
bluff; four flush (the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards)
take-in (the act of taking in as by fooling or cheating or swindling someone)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Pretending with intention to deceive
Synonyms:
dissembling; feigning; pretence; pretense
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("dissembling" is a kind of...):
deceit; deception; misrepresentation (a misleading falsehood)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dissembling"):
bluff (pretense that your position is stronger than it really is)
pretext; stalking-horse (something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason)
hypocrisy; lip service (an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction)
Derivation:
dissemble (make believe with the intent to deceive)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb dissemble
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