dissembling

How To Use dissembling In A Sentence

• You're with Radio National's Background Briefing, and today we probe the smoky world of ambiguities, misinformation, dissembling and not so much lies, as the avoidance of truth.
• Then he is envious, covetous, jealous and mistrustful, timorous, sordid, outwardly dissembling, sluggish, suspicious, stubborn, a condemner of women, a close liar, malicious, murmuring, never contented, ever repining.
• Or perhaps it will become part of that collection of words and phrases that only parliamentarians use, and which forms the acceptable face of the English Language - rather like 'dissembling' or 'considering your position'. Will 'misspeaking' be 'Out of Order'.
• Poker also requires analytical skill, but above all it requires skill in bluffing and dissembling.
• So did a certain cafard or dissembling religionary preach at Sinay, that Saint Anthony sent the fire into men's legs, that Saint Eutropius made men hydropic, Saint Clidas, fools, and that Saint Genou made them goutish. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1
• 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 is now clear, however, that this was just the first stage in the Government's dissembling over the presentation of a decision already taken.
• 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
• It is time to stop dissembling, delaying and deceiving.
• It takes me back to the cadets, assembling or dissembling the Bren gun: piston, barrel, butt, body, bipod.