🔤 Dissemble (Verb)

IPA: //dɪˈsɛmbəl//

✨ Use dissemble when someone isn’t telling lies—but isn’t telling the whole truth either.

🧠 Meaning

To conceal or disguise one’s true feelings, motives, or beliefs.

✍️ Example Sentences

🔹 She smiled warmly, dissembling the disappointment she felt inside.

🔹 The politician dissembled his true intentions behind charming rhetoric.

📜 Word Origin

From Latin dissimulare (“to disguise, conceal”), from dis- (“apart”) + simulare (“to pretend, feign”).

💡 Did You Know?

Unlike outright lying, dissembling often involves hiding or masking truth under a surface appearance.

🏷️ Related Words

#pretend #feign #mask #camouflage #conceal #mislead

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