Example Sentences
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Then, the dissembling from Burden’s husband, the declarations that it meant nothing, that he still loved her.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026
This fits his dissembling about his reason for vetoing the tax-credit bill.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
But altogether, the scope of his lying certainly seems to go beyond dishonesty or dissembling for monetary gain alone.
From Slate • Nov. 28, 2023
Is there not something paranoid and delusional about Lucrezia’s obsession with “his pretense, his dissembling, his lying looks”?
From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2022
His judgments were strict and fair, and none could sway him through falsehood or dissembling.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
