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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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