dissembling

Reader's Digest ６月号の記事 Psychoanalysing Dictatorsの中のNikita Khrushchevについての記述の一部を引用します。
"Capable of extraordinary frankness, and in his own eyes no doubt unusually honest, Khrushchev can also be expert in calculated bluffing. It is often hard to distinguish when he is voicing real conviction and when he is dissembling."
最後に出てきた単語 "dissembling" を原形の "dissemble" で調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Conceal one’s true motives, feelings, or beliefs: an honest, sincere person with no need to dissemble
・Vocabulary.com: To dissemble is to hide under a false appearance, to deceive. "When confronted about their human rights record, the Chinese government typically dissembles."
Dissemble is a little more complicated than a straight lie or denial. When you dissemble, you disguise your true intentions or feelings behind a false appearance. To dissemble is to pretend that you don't know something, to pretend that you think one way when you act another way. "My boyfriend was dissembling the whole time. He was a married father of two."