0 present participle of dissemble
1 to hide your real intentions and feelings or the facts:
He accused the government of dissembling.
The incentive to game the system and for such analytic dissembling is obvious.
His acting, however, is interpreted as a form of female dissembling ("there's a woman underneath"); his mask reveals - even intensifies - exactly what it is intended to conceal.
That is, children who expect a supportive response to their emotional displays are more likely to express emotion, whereas children who expect a negative interpersonal response report dissembling emotional expression.
Incapable of dissembling, he found having to review what he discerned to be self-regarding works and performances increasingly trying.
To say that someone is "dissembling" means that they are telling untruths.
Any kind of dissembling or lying is obviously regrettable and not acceptable.
But none of us can charge him justly with dissembling.
One thing that worries us is the degree of dissembling which has gone on over the years in official answers.
