Example Sentences

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Appropriately for a novel so focused on theatrical performance, these “wink-wink asides” highlight the ways that the characters are dissembling for effect, or to keep the marital peace.

From The Guardian • Sep. 22, 2015

Almost everywhere you look in “Measure for Measure,” people are dissembling, deceiving and disguising their natures.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2010

Short of employing truth serum or lie detectors, how can they know when officials of an agency trained in the art of deception are dissembling?

From Time Magazine Archive