What is an example sentence for the word dissemble?

Answer 1

it has 4 different meanings : To disguise (one's intentions, for example) under a feigned appearance. See Synonyms at disguise.

late 14c., from O.Fr. dissimulation, from L. dissimulationem, from dissimulare "conceal, disguise," from dis- "completely" + simmular "pretend, simulate

the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy

Concealment of the truth about a situation, especially about a state of health, as by a malingerer

To conceal one's true feelings or intentions.

Answer 2

The politician was a master of dissembling, and no one knew which of his statements expressed his actual beliefs.

Dissembling had become a common activity among the middle managers, and the directors thought that the company was in good financial condition.

Answer 3

When asked for a report of that night's activities, Tolin started to dissemble, concealing his involvement with a turn of phrase, a suggestion here, a shake of the head there. The Magistrate came out of the conversation with the impression that Tolin had not been involved at all.

Answer 4

Chesterfield was selfish, calculating and contemptuous; he was not naturally generous, and he practiced dissimulation till it became part of his nature. Richelieu, therefore, passed his time in safeguarding himself from his rivals and in spying upon them; his suspicious nature, rendered still more irritable by his painful practice of a dissimulation repugnant to his headstrong character, making him fancy himself threatened more than was actually the case. If he refrained from actual invective, he accomplished his purpose, according to Guizot, by "omission, palliation and dissimulation." He says of himself, and justly, "that he was incapable of dissimulation" xxvi. He was, however, full of vindictiveness, dissimulation and treachery, and there can be little doubt that in his historic conflict with Warren Hastings unworthy personal motives played a leading part. Dissemble federalists in Brussels, London and elsewhere worked on with stealth, guile, dissembling, dissimulation, half-truths and often lies. It is true that in addressing the Christian people he used different language from that which he employed to the cultured; but there was no dissimulation in that - on the contrary, it was a requirement of his system. His personal morality was irreproachable, except that he inherited the Plantagenet taste for crooked courses and dissimulation in political affairs; even in this respect the king's reputation has suffered unduly at the hands of Matthew Paris, whose literary skill is only equaled by his malice. Adept as she was in the most exquisite delicacy of dissimulation, the most salient note of her original disposition was daring rather than subtlety. The interference of the state with his education, when he was quite a child, was, however, doubly harmful, as his parents taught him to despise the preceptors imposed upon him by the diet, and the atmosphere of intrigue and duplicity in which he grew up made him precociously experienced in the art of dissimulation.

Answer 5

His world is one of dissimulation and hypocrisy.

Answer 6

The young man was unable to dissemble his feelings and admitted to having commited the crime.

Answer 7

It was very difficult for Sara to dissimulate the truth from her friend.

Answer 8

He is a politician so his motives are full of dissimulation.

Answer 9

He dissimulated the other person's feeling. This means conceal the thoughts of someone else.