(formal) to hide your real feelings or intentions, often by pretending to have different ones:
[V] She was a very honest person who was incapable of dissembling. [also VN]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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In this entry, dissemble is tagged as verb.
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