have dissembled
- present perfect of dissemble.
Example Sentences
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He was said to have dissembled when people on the call asked about whether repeat shop lifters or people who commit assaults without a weapon would be prosecuted and face jail terms.
From Fox News ● Jan. 20, 2022
Listening to early Nirvana records, a person worries that a strong wind might have dissembled the whole operation.
From The New Yorker ● May 18, 2017
A European could hardly have dissembled his curiosity as to what had happened.
From The Triumph of Hilary Blachland by Mitford, Bertram
I have dissembled with thy father here, The better that I might with thee confer.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by Hazlitt, William Carew
Baud—'sdeath, They'll raise the Court upon me, and then I'm lost— My Queen—my Goddess—Oh raise your lovely Eyes, I have dissembled Coldness all this while; And that Deceit was but to try thy Faith.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Summers, Montague
