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Meanings of dissemble in English

Portuguese
aparentar
Catalan
aparençar
Spanish
aparentar

Make believe with the intent to deceive.

        aparentar
        Portuguese
        esconder
        Catalan
        emmascarar
        Spanish
        enmascarar

        Hide under a false appearance.

              esconder

              To speak or behave hypocritically, unnaturally or affectedly.

                    Usage of dissemble in English
                    1
                    The jailer could dissemble no longer: he came out with it bluntly.
                    Within an Inch of His Life
                    2
                    And my policy was to dissemble, like the man in a melodrama.
                    The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 / An Illustrated Mont...
                    3
                    The celebrants of Deicidal masses dissemble and declare themselves devoted to Christ.
                    Là-bas
                    4
                    He knew that he knew, and he did not dissemble the fact.
                    George Washington
                    5
                    But- Imakethe confession amid blushes- Icannotprevaricate, neither can I dissemble.
                    The House / An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer,...
                    6
                    The guide's visible efforts to dissemble the truth only made things worse.
                    The Wendigo
                    7
                    Elizabeth, however, in order to save her life, was obliged to dissemble.
                    Beacon Lights of History, Volume 08: Great Rulers
                    8
                    She can dissemble far too well to let any dissimulation pass undetected.
                    The Magic Skin
                    9
                    I am not used, at least for these many years, to dissemble.
                    The Man
                    10
                    To falter, or equivocate, or dissemble to this woman would be wicked.
                    Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
                    11
                    I will not dissemble joy while she sinks in her prison solitude!
                    Our World; Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter
                    12
                    Hath a Queen a thousand eyes-canshe know truth where most dissemble?
                    Michel and Angele [A Ladder of Swords] — Volume 2
                    13
                    No; I would not dissemble; I would boldly avow the truth.
                    The War Trail: The Hunt of the Wild Horse
                    14
                    So we dissemble; which is what this State has been doing over abortion.
                    The Irish Times
                    15
                    The Spaniards about the court of the Archduke did not dissemble their rage.
                    Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with ...
                    16
                    He made no effort to dissemble the sneer in his voice.
                    The Damnation of Theron Ware
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