All 3 Uses
dissemble
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- I'll not dissemble, sir: where'er I come, I love to be considerative; and 'tis true, I have at my free hours thought upon Some certain goods unto the state of Venice, Which I do call "my Cautions;" and, sir, which I mean, in hope of pension, to propound To the Great Council, then unto the Forty, So to the Ten.†
Act 4dissemble = hide or disguise the truth without outright lying
- —Perhaps he doth dissemble!†
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- Thus do all gamesters, at all games, dissemble: No man will seem to win.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(dissemble) hide or disguise the truth without outright lying
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)