Sample Sentences fordissimulation (auto-selected)
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I personally dislike the greasy dissimulation of diplomacy.† (source)
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Let love be without dissimulation.† (source)
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He even observed the changes in her breathing, watching the reliquary that hung on her batiste blouse as he looked at her without dissimulation over the book he pretended to read, and he committed the calculated impertinence of changing his seat in the dining room so that he would face her.† (source)
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He could not keep up a dissimulation.† (source)
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Mordred went over to him with haste, with a sort of shamefaced dissimulation.† (source)
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Thus the Genoese, subtle as he was, was duped by Edmond, in whose favor his mild demeanor, his nautical skill, and his admirable dissimulation, pleaded.† (source)
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The Court, from that exclusive inner circle to its outermost rotten ring of intrigue, corruption, and dissimulation, was all gone together.† (source)
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Alba learned to lie and dissimulate.† (source)
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She would perhaps be hardly characterized enough if it were omitted that she wore her brown hair flatly braided and coiled behind so as to expose the outline of her head in a daring manner at a time when public feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows, never surpassed by any great race except the Feejeean.† (source)
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Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.† (source)
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They used a method known in symbology as dissimulation.† (source)
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We have not the strength with which to fight this man; we must dissimulate, and win, if win we can, by craft.† (source)
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She locked herself in her room, refused to eat or drink, and when at last he persuaded her to open the door, first with threats and then with poorly dissimulated pleading, he found a wounded panther who would never be fifteen years old again.† (source)
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Maybe he was dissimulating, like some of the teachers at the college, who, to avoid trouble when driving through the small surrounding towns, wore chauffeur caps and pretended that their cars belonged to white men.† (source)
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The wolf, however, licked his chops with a grin, his constraint and dissimulation erased.† (source)
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He rubbed his hands, he laughed with that inward mirth which makes the countenance beam; he was unable to dissimulate his joy, although he endeavored at moments to compose himself.† (source)
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