dissembling

• “Everyone understands politicians are under pressure to disingenuously parrot the party line, but unlike lawyers, their dissembling is never ethically required.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy

• “No amount of paranoid dissembling is going to change that reality.”

  Archive 2003-06-01

• “If he calls dissembling a crime, we have both of us dissembled.”

  The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations

• “At least some responded with what might charitably be called dissembling answers.”

  Archive 2005-11-01

• “He was criticised by some for "dissembling"? his own word for it? and for allowing blame to fall for a time on his colleague Lesley Stahl.”

  The Guardian: Daniel Schorr obituary

• “While clearly hypocritical, it verges on dissembling, meaning to disguise or conceal the real nature of something.”

  Obama And Lobbyists: What's The Real Story?

• “It would be a serious mistake to laugh this kind of dissembling as "comic".”

  Rudy's Comic Dissembling About Dems And Terror

• “Or perhaps it will become part of that collection of words and phrases that only parliamentarians use, and which forms the acceptable face of the English Language - rather like 'dissembling' or 'considering your position'.”

  Will 'misspeaking' be 'Out of Order'.

• “The latter rebuked the former for "dissembling," _i. e._ for acting on a special occasion in a {122} manner contrary to his convictions and openly professed principles.”

  The Books of the New Testament

• “And that at its extreme end, the range of possible change reaches the kind of dissembling described by so many of those who encountered Loughner in the past year or who described themselves as his once-close friends.”

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