All dissimulation synonyms

noun dissimulation

• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• lie — Jonas, 1880–1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
• deceitfulness — given to deceiving: A deceitful person cannot keep friends for long.
• disguise — to change the appearance or guise of so as to conceal identity or mislead, as by means of deceptive garb: The king was disguised as a peasant.
• cover — If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
• disguise — to change the appearance or guise of so as to conceal identity or mislead, as by means of deceptive garb: The king was disguised as a peasant.
• tall tale — far-fetched story
• falsity — the quality or condition of being false; incorrectness; untruthfulness; treachery.
• misstatement — to state wrongly or misleadingly; make a wrong statement about.
• perjury — the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry.
• sham — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
• fabrication — the act or process of fabricating; manufacture.
• fakery — the practice or result of faking.
• mockery — ridicule, contempt, or derision.
• bigotry — Bigotry is the possession or expression of strong, unreasonable prejudices or opinions.
• visor — Armor. (on a close helmet) a piece having slits or holes for vision, situated above and pivoted with a beaver or a ventail and beaver. a similar piece of plate having holes or slits for vision and breathing, attached to or used with any of various other helmets, as the armet, sallet, basinet, or helm.
• veil — a piece of opaque or transparent material worn over the face for concealment, for protection from the elements, or to enhance the appearance.
• mask — a form of aristocratic entertainment in England in the 16th and 17th centuries, originally consisting of pantomime and dancing but later including dialogue and song, presented in elaborate productions given by amateur and professional actors.
• cloak — A cloak is a long, loose, sleeveless piece of clothing which people used to wear over their other clothes when they went out.
• conspiracy — Conspiracy is the secret planning by a group of people to do something illegal.
• complicity — Complicity is involvement with other people in an illegal activity or plan.
• fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• trickery — the use or practice of tricks or stratagems to deceive; artifice; deception.
• duplicity — deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing. Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, trickery. Antonyms: candidness, directness, honesty, straightforwardness.
• hypocrisy — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
• dishonesty — lack of honesty; a disposition to lie, cheat, or steal.
• chicanery — Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people.
• treachery — violation of faith; betrayal of trust; treason.
• falsehood — a false statement; lie. Synonyms: fabrication, prevarication, falsification, canard, invention, fiction, story.
• betrayal — A betrayal is an action which betrays someone or something, or the fact of being betrayed.
• untruth — the state or character of being untrue.
• mendacity — the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
• lying — the manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies: the lie of the patio, facing the water. Synonyms: place, location, site.
• disinformation — false information, as about a country's military strength or plans, publicly announced or planted in the news media, especially of other countries.
• one-upmanship — the art or practice of achieving, demonstrating, or assuming superiority in one's rivalry with a friend or opponent by obtaining privilege, status, status symbols, etc.: the one-upmanship of getting into the president's car pool.
• skullduggery — skulduggery.
• duality — a dual state or quality.
• delusion — A delusion is a false idea.
• waffle — waffling language.
• casuistry — Casuistry is the use of clever arguments to persuade or trick people.
• non-spurious — not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
• lie — Jonas, 1880–1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
• fib — a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
• ambiguity — If you say that there is ambiguity in something, you mean that it is unclear or confusing, or it can be understood in more than one way.
• tergiversation — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
• song — Ailing [ahy-ling] /ˈaɪˈlɪŋ/ (Show IPA), Soong, Ai-ling.
• speciousness — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
• doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
• line — a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.