Example Sentences

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This fits his dissembling about his reason for vetoing the tax-credit bill.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

“Family Plan,” starring Mark Wahlberg as the dissembling patriarch, plays it for laughs, using his deception and its unraveling as a springboard for screwball comedy.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2023

But altogether, the scope of his lying certainly seems to go beyond dishonesty or dissembling for monetary gain alone.

From Slate • Nov. 28, 2023

Hostile and dissembling witnesses testified against their superiors under relentless pressure from the prosecutors.

From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2022

Poor Tom did not know and could not learn that dissembling successfully is one of the creative joys of a businessman.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck