Sample Sentences fordissemble (editor-reviewed)
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After the primaries, she will dissemble her past statements to appear more moderate in her beliefs.dissemble = be deceptive about
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She's doing what she can to change the subject and dissemble.dissemble = disguise the truth
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To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, to do what everyone else was doing, was an instinctive reaction. (source)dissemble = hide the truth of
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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
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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
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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
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He was not good at dissembling and he was very well understood. (source)dissembling = hiding or disguising the truth
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I dissembled.† (source)
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Incorrigible, said Dr. Bannerling, a devious dissembler.† (source)
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The Spicers are dissemblers and braggarts and the Brotherhood is full of pirates.† (source)
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Is our whole dissembly appeared?† (source)
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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."
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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)
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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
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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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