Sample Sentences for
dissemble
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  • Sometimes Scarlett found it hard to dissemble her feelings, for she still thought Aunt Pitty the silliest of old ladies and her vagueness and vaporings irritated her unendurably.  (source)
    dissemble = hide or disguise the truth of
  • You can hardly doubt the purport of my discourse, however your natural delicacy may lead you to dissemble; my attentions have been too marked to be mistaken.  (source)
    dissemble = hide or disguise the truth
  • He is bending to kneel again when his niece, Abigail Williams, seventeen, enters—a strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling.  (source)
    dissembling = hiding or disguising the truth
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  • It must have been a self-preserving instinct which had made us keep the thing to ourselves, for we'd no active feeling of danger — I had so little, in fact, that when Uncle Axel found me sitting behind a rick chatting apparently to myself, I made very little effort to dissemble.  (source)
    dissemble = hide or disguise the truth without outright lying
  • He was not good at dissembling and he was very well understood.  (source)
    dissembling = hiding or disguising the truth
  • I dissembled.†  (source)
  • Incorrigible, said Dr. Bannerling, a devious dissembler.†  (source)
  • The Spicers are dissemblers and braggarts and the Brotherhood is full of pirates.†  (source)
  • Is our whole dissembly appeared?†  (source)
  • 26:24 He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him; 26:25 When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She dissembleth" in older English, today we say "She dissembles."
  • Ah, but his adversary was not tongue-tied, either; he knew how to disrupt this angelic hallelujah with nasty, brilliant protests, declaring himself a partisan of life and its conservation and an opponent of the spirit of sedition lurking beneath such seraphic dissemblance.†  (source)
  • Monks cast a look of hate, which, even then, he could not dissemble, at the astonished boy, and sat down near the door.  (source)
    dissemble = hide or disguise
  • He was a dissembling prince, but one who understood far better how to hide his troubles than his joys.  (source)
    dissembling = hiding or disguising the truth
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