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

To be sure, they have dissembled in their presence; but their perceptions are keen.

From Other People's Money by Gaboriau, Émile

We have dissembled too long; and know, as we go through the form of debating it, that our date must be the next spring-tides.

From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

A European could hardly have dissembled his curiosity as to what had happened.

From The Triumph of Hilary Blachland by Mitford, Bertram