Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective That dissembles; hypocritical; false.
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- noun The action of the verb
dissemble - verb Present participle of
dissemble .
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- noun pretending with intention to deceive
- noun the act of deceiving
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Examples
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Everyone understands politicians are under pressure to disingenuously parrot the party line, but unlike lawyers, their dissembling is never ethically required.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy 2010
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No amount of paranoid dissembling is going to change that reality.
All we need is Blog? Ed 2003
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No amount of paranoid dissembling is going to change that reality.
Archive 2003-06-01 Ed 2003
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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 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847
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At least some responded with what might charitably be called dissembling answers.
Grand Jury Probes Citizens Beach Blogger 2005
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At least some responded with what might charitably be called dissembling answers.
Archive 2005-11-01 Beach Blogger 2005
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He was criticised by some for "dissembling"? his own word for it? and for allowing blame to fall for a time on his colleague Lesley Stahl.
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While clearly hypocritical, it verges on dissembling, meaning to disguise or conceal the real nature of something.
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It would be a serious mistake to laugh this kind of dissembling as "comic".
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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'. Glyn Davies 2008
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