dissembleverb [ I ]
uk/dɪˈsem.bəl/us/dɪˈsem.bəl/formalto hide your real intentions and feelings or the facts:
He accused the government of dissembling.
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Faking & pretending
- a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
- affect
- assume
- believe
- bluff
- changeling
- charlatan
- feign
- fraud
- go through the motions idiom
- guise
- impostor
- play at sth
- play possum idiom
- play sth out
- play-acting
- pose as sb
- professed
- purport
- quack
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