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n. - The act of deceiving.

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  • Still we have our limits beyond which we call dissimulation treachery.
  • A course of lying, of deceit and dissimulation, is that which every good man dreads and which we are all concerned to beg of
  • My immediate reaction is that his article feels kind of like an ambush, can it be called dissimulation or subterfuge?
  • Wherefore, although he did not lie in words, yet with respect to the matter of fact, his dissimulation was a lie, by implication.
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