How To Use Dissemble In A Sentence

  • Soon after the Council St. Peter was at Antioch, and weakly "dissembled" by disguising his belief in the truth that the The Books of the New Testament
  • But let's remember this: Bowman is a master dissembler and is prone to making disingenuous comments at times such as these; comments designed to deflect any suspicions that he may have had a role in this decision. Coach Savard, we hardly knew you
  • If she were such an abyss of insincerity as to dissemble distrust under such frankness, she must at least be more subtle than to bring her doubts to her rival for solution.
  • Giles Fraser decides to not listen and instead assert (or might we be controvesial and say "dissemble") that the Pope has condemned gay An Exercise in the Fundamentals of Orthodoxy
  • Waaa-al I dunno, Kerry seems to have read a few books and done some thinking since graduation, Bush on the other hand scowls petulantly and cannot use the word "dissemble" correctly in a sentence - a challenge that my eleven year old niece would sneer at. The Chimes at Midnight
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  • These two great dissemblers of global finance are not about third world ‘development’ or tackling world poverty.
  • But you study him, you look into his eyes and know he dissembles an emotion which he does not feel in the depths of his being because he has no capacity for it.
  • And so I sort of dissembled for a bit and I said, ` Oh, delope. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
  • By 2009, he certainly knew better, but so invested was he in the story, and so useful had it been in his rise, that he continued to dissemble, even before millions of schoolchildren. Deconstructing Obama
  • The term irony itself is rooted in the Greek eiron, or "a dissembler," or liar. The Rule of Reason
  • Mollie "dissembled," as she called it, smiling sweet recognition of the praise, but never once breathing the secret that the whole being and intent of these flowers was to hide the joins beneath. The Fortunes of the Farrells
  • Melissa dissembled acceptance and showed only a little of how hurt she felt by this treatment and asked if he would help her understand what she had missed.
  • No longer need the ailing woman pass through the smiling derisive rows of courtiers, fearing their eyes, dreading the falling of her rose and catching her breath as she dissembled a vivacity that amused the King.
  • What we really don't know factually is whether Rove lied to the president or whether the president knew something about Rove's role and dissembled," said Rozell. 08/11/2005
  • He had impressions, possibly gross and unjust, in regard to the way women move constantly together amid such considerations and subtly intercommunicate, when they don't still more subtly dissemble, the hopes or fears of which persons of the opposite sex form the subject. The Tragic Muse
  • Which is why Tritium’s joke about not lying to the fat guy is funny but does not work in the original, as the word recline (mishkhav) and the word dissemble, fib or tell an untruth (sh’k’r) are not hompohones in Hebrew the way they are in English. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Sotomayor Supported Censoring Biblical Verse on Homosexuality from New York City Billboard”:
  • They are plotters, dissemblers, manipulators, murderers of children, fanatics.
  • In sooth, señora, till you first taught me to dissemble I was unlessoned in the art. Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine
  • But try as he might, the master dissembler, with the walls closing in, proves unable to get out of anything. William Bradley: Mad Men: "Seven Twenty Three" -- HuffPost Review
  • She held nothing back, not even her more lurid impressions about Devereux's daughter; she was too downhearted, too frightened to dissemble. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
  • She held nothing back, not even her more lurid impressions about Devereux's daughter; she was too downhearted, too frightened to dissemble. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
  • She held nothing back, not even her more lurid impressions about Devereux's daughter; she was too downhearted, too frightened to dissemble. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
  • Poussin, who seems to privilege the world image per se, dissembles such spatiotemporal leaps within the contiguous illusion-promoting signs of the depicted scene.
  • Who knows not how to dissemble knows not how to live. 
  • She tried to dissemble her disappointment with a joke.
  • Aubrey's niece was clutching her arms now, growing colder, less able to dissemble. THE LAST RAVEN
  • But T.O. Nicholson could fix up his big steam yacht, load his specially-made big motorboat aboard, and tuck in a "dissembled" biplane without any more notice than a snip in the society column. Herland
  • Various parties "dissembled" when Emerald was first trying to move into Rosemont, Mikva found, while Kevin Flynn "flat-out lied." editorial on the Emerald project appeared on November 16, 2003. Chicago Reader
  • Easy to assemble or dissemble for brake lever is considerable to bicycle assembly or repair.
  • Germanicus admitted a few intimates, and began his complaints in words such as dissembled resentment dictates. The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola
  • The real difficulty, for it is not to be dissembled that there is a difficulty, is that the independent voters, those who are desirous of voting for unpatronised persons of merit, would be apt to put down the names of a few such persons, and to fill up the remainder of their list with mere party candidates, thus helping to swell the numbers against those by whom they would prefer to be represented. Representative Government
  • That last post to the dissembler was mine ... sorry. Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Bill Clinton: I Opposed Iraq War From The Beginning
  • She held nothing back, not even her more lurid impressions about Devereux's daughter; she was too downhearted, too frightened to dissemble. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
  • He dissembled with one or the other, and by so doing lost his credit with both.
  • In melodrama the characters are templates for the tracing of society's invisible or ideologically dissembled ministers of power, while the narrative unwinds the psychological machinery of their enforcement.
  • Out of self-interest, rich or eminent people who would curry popular favor to gain political office will dissemble their selfishness and pride.
  • They are plotters, dissemblers, manipulators, murderers of children, fanatics.
  • But, in fact, the Captain dissembles his own allegiances.
  • The police dissembled, waffled and redrafted the history.
  • She held nothing back, not even her more lurid impressions about Devereux's daughter; she was too downhearted, too frightened to dissemble. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
  • Henry was not slow to dissemble when it served his purposes.
  • And ye shall know that we may dissemble, I meane speake otherwise then we thinke, in earnest as well as in sport, vnder couert and darke termes, and in learned and apparant speaches, in short sentences, and by long ambage and circumstance of wordes, and finally aswell when we lye as when we tell truth. The Arte of English Poesie
  • It is not by accident that I refer to you as "the dissembler. Hillary Official Who Made Obama Drug Comment Is A Goner
  • On a day, Massetto having laboured somewhat extraordinarily, lay downe to rest himselfe awhile under the trees, and two delicate yong Nunnes, walking there to take the aire, drew neere to the place where he dissembled sleeping; and both of them observing his comelinesse of person, began to pitty the poverty of his condition; but much more the misery of his great defectes. The Decameron
  • I am who I claim to be, and I do know stats, the views of the dissembler notwithstanding. Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Bill Clinton: I Opposed Iraq War From The Beginning
  • You are just an intellectually dishonest hack ... a dissembler. Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Bill Clinton: I Opposed Iraq War From The Beginning
  • They are the strangest men in the world; they cannot dissemble; they own it is a folly; they have lost abundance of advantages by it; but, if you would give them the world, they cannot help it; there is something in their nature that abhors insincerity and constraint; with many other unsufferable topics of the same altitude. Hints towards an essay on conversation
  • I really enjoy it, I like doing it, I like composing music that I can kind of dissemble and say “what are different ways of telling the same musical story but making the middle something that is sorta indeterminate.” Archive 2008-12-01
  • Moreover, emotions are ‘produced,’ constructed rather than inherent, and thus can be faked or dissembled.
  • But it has left behind it a token; a clear, bright impress; a smile of undissembled love and purity; an expression beaming with the last unutterable peace; the graces which were so winning upon earth, but which shall attain their perfection in heaven. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2
  • Sarah Palin is a hypocrite, a liar, a dissembler, an opportunist. Think Progress » MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Mocks Sarah Palin By Writing ‘Cheat Sheet’ On Her Hand
  • The unanimous evidence of his contemporaries is confirmed by the public and private declarations of the emperor himself; and his various writings express the uniform tenor of his religious sentiments, which policy would have prompted him to dissemble rather than to affect. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • But please: can't ever say they lied (the approved usage is "dissemble"), and for Chrissake, don't even think impeachment or criminal proceedings. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • Granted, his word is worthless, but Henry was not slow to dissemble either, when it served his purposes. HERE BE DRAGONS
  • Who knows not how to dissemble knows not how to live. 
  • This doctor is a dissembler , apparently be sanctimonious, actual begin is cruel - hearted poison.
  • Only a fool could not see through that arch dissembler from day one. Archive 2008-04-01
  • Crumwell (though the greatest Dissembler livinge) alwayes made his hypocrisy of singular use and benefitt to him, and never did any thinge, how ungratious or imprudent soever it seemed to be, but what was necessary to the designe; even his roughnesse and unpolishednesse which in the beginninge of the Parliament he affected, contrary to the smoothnesse and complacency which his Cozen and bosome frende Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles
  • ‘Realistic, illusionist art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art.
  • They found a hastily dissembled conventional compressed-air motor and pipes linking it to the vibratory generator. Times, Sunday Times
  • Alan Bakke won his case, but universities continued to do to others what his medical school had done to him, being careful, however, to dissemble their actions behind the screen of diversity rhetoric.
  • She tried to dissemble her disappointment with a joke.
  • If he's willing to use their lying and dissembling to his advantage, doesn't that make him a liar and dissembler also? Obama Lets Bill Clinton Off The Hook
  • It was the lie of obfuscators and dissemblers, but a lie all the same.
  • And to this purpose, the Hebrews have two words for hypocrites; panim, which signifies faces; and chanepim, which signifies counterfeits; from chanaph, to dissemble: so that he is a hypocrite that dissembles religion, and weareth the face of holiness, and yet is without the grace of holiness. The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast.
  • Granted, his word is worthless, but Henry was not slow to dissemble either, when it served his purposes. HERE BE DRAGONS
  • But even his ideological enemies sneakingly admire his unabashed aggression, a quality rare in a city of trimmers and dissemblers.
  • He can plot and plan, lie and dissemble without fear of contradiction or enquiry, let alone protest.
  • When Agrippina decided to show sympathy for Claudius' natural son Britannicus in 55, she sealed his doom, though the poisoning was not overt and could be dissembled, as by Seneca, who wrote praising Nero's clemency in the next year.
  • And ye shall know that we may dissemble, I meane speake otherwise then we thinke, in earnest aswell as in sport, vnder couert and darke termes, and in learned and apparant speaches, in short sentences, and by long ambage and circumstance of wordes, and finally aswell when we lye as when we tell truth. The Arte of English Poesie
  • Either he is a consummate actor and dissembler, or what he says is reasonable and fair.
  • Aubrey's niece was clutching her arms now, growing colder, less able to dissemble. THE LAST RAVEN
  • Their means is their misery, though they do apply themselves to the times, to lie, dissemble, collogue and flatter their lieges, obey, second his will and commands as much as may be, yet too frequently they miscarry, they fat themselves like so many hogs, as [3696] Aeneas Anatomy of Melancholy
  • It is not surprising to hear the Bachmann's dissemble. Wayne Besen: Leading GOP Candidates Run Away From the Gay
  • Who knows not how to dissemble knows not how to live. 
  • Also, you've repeatedly dissembled when challenged to address the crackpottery of his claim that Christian scientists who accept evolution are harming science education. Berlinski stirring the pot
  • The father, apprised afterward of the fact, dissembles his feelings, but meditates a deadly vengeance against Astyages for this Thyestean meal. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
  • If he calls dissembling a crime, we have both of us dissembled. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations
  • STEWART: Actually, Mr. President, "dissemble" means to not tell the truth. CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2005
  • He sometimes has to dissemble in order to prevail on crucial issues.
  • Granted, his word is worthless, but Henry was not slow to dissemble either, when it served his purposes. HERE BE DRAGONS
  • Who knows not how to dissemble knows not how to live. 
  • Recently at least, they are, for the most part, ignominious liars, dissemblers, shape-changers, not particularly attractive people, even by their own reckoning.
  • Burke never dissembled the existence of the real misery that he observed in civil society.
  • He's a particularly close-mouthed politician, and when he does speak, it is almost always to distract and dissemble.
  • Anglo-Floridians howled in renewed protest and Poinsett dissembled, but it did not matter after July 23. Between War and Peace
  • Look, everyone knows that presidents care who succeeds them in the Senate, even if they kind of dissemble a little bit or don't tell the whole story? Giving Us the Business
  • More interestingly, ravens seem to know when other ravens are checking them out, and are able to dissemble and deceive.
  • It's basically to dissemble the idea that nudity equates to pornography and nudity equates to sexuality.
  • Use the word, "dissemble" or "disingenuous," if you will, but let's call it what it really is. Tom D'Antoni: Sen. Clinton's Own Religious Cult Includes Brownback, Santorum
  • The low point during this time came when Schorr "dissembled" -- his word -- by not disabusing Chicagotribune.com -
  • The reason for your confusion over the announced roster is exactly because Marvel specifically stated that the classic big three, Thor, Shellhead and Cap, were going to form the core of the returning Avengers title - singular - but they "dissembled" aka "lied" about that aspect. Editorial Diatribe from the Catacombs: Avengers Assemble (or not)!
  • Yea, thoughe he woulde dissemble the matier, and denie him self to be sicke, it boteth not. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
  • Unfolding thus entails temporality, which is said to dissemble the essential.
  • Granted, his word is worthless, but Henry was not slow to dissemble either, when it served his purposes. HERE BE DRAGONS
  • Aubrey's niece was clutching her arms now, growing colder, less able to dissemble. THE LAST RAVEN
  • The silvered party warily dissembled, watching their opportunity to be even with them, and presented one of their nymphs to the golden queen, having laid an ambuscado; so that the nymph being taken, a golden archer had like to have seized the silvered queen. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • The state does not dilute or dissemble the gravity of the act.
  • They are plotters, dissemblers, manipulators, murderers of children, fanatics.
  • The low point during this time came when Schorr "dissembled" - his word - by not disabusing Dailypress.com - Breaking news
  • I'd be loath to have you think me a fibster or dissembler.
  • Well, if the painter hath not dissembled in it -- the _painter_? The Bride of Fort Edward
  • Aubrey's niece was clutching her arms now, growing colder, less able to dissemble. THE LAST RAVEN

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