Dissembling: alternatives and connections

Having a broad, flattened front; as, the bluff bows of a ship.

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An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

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of Cheat

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The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; tr…

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Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.

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The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind.

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Doubleness; a twofold state.

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of Feign

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Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.

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The act or practice of a hypocrite; a feigning to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; a dissimulation, or a concealment of one's r…

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An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination.

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Alt. of Impersonification

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The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating.

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Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness.

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The system or the principles of the obscurants.

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Alt. of Pretenceless

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of Pretend

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Alt. of Pretence

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Ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color or cover for the real reason or motive; pretense; disguise.

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The act of simulating, or assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true; -- distinguished from dissimulation, which disguises or conceals what…

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A horse, or a figure resembling a horse, behind which a hunter conceals himself from the game he is aiming to kill.

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Imposition; fraud.

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The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.

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A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement.

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An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe wha…

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The act of deceiving or misleading.

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The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.

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Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person'…

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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is one's; presuming; assuming.

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Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is one's; presuming; assuming.

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An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe wha…

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The act of deceiving or misleading.

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The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy.

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of Feign

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Alt. of Pretenceless

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Alt. of Pretence

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