Wednesday Word: Dissemble

[calzephyr77]

Dissemble - verb

I learned about dissemble in the most technological way possible--I meant disassemble, but a fat finger made a typo without spell check catching it. Or maybe spell check was just trying to be automagically helpful!

Dissemble is an obsolete word first recorded in the Middle Ages. It means to feign truth or give false or misleading

Comments

[prettygoodword]

I wouldn't say obsolete -- I've seen it in the wild, for example in Heyer's novels. But it's definitely literary register and not very common.