Verb
To hide under a false semblance or seeming; to feign (something) not to be what it really is; to put an untrue appearance upon; to disguise; to mask.
To put on the semblance of; to make pretense of; to simulate; to feign.
To conceal the real fact, motives, /tention, or sentiments, under some pretense; to assume a false appearance; to act the hypocrite.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWe are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves. François de La Rochefoucauld
Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But-why did you kick me down stairs? John Philip Kemble
In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity. Adam Schiff
If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not. Francis Bacon
Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But - why did you kick me downstairs? Isaac Bickerstaffe
Who knows not how to dissemble knows not how to reign. Italian Proverb