dissemble
verb (used with object)
to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of.
dissembles
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present tense formof dissemble (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Evgeny dissembles: “Nothing. It is perhaps the fragrant scent of a passing track team.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
Maradona, young and handsome, dissembles for a moment, before the president of the club, Corrado Ferlaino, steps in to reject the notion with full-throated anger.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 13, 2019
Looking at the tape of her statement, it is remarkable how smoothly she dissembles.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2019
Our country’s most prominent id rarely dissembles what he feels or believes.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2017
But he knows sufficiently, however he dissembles it, that there were some taken into custody, to whom that crime was not objected.
From His Majesties Declaration Defended by John Dryden
