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    1. 23 But he began to consider discreetly and as became his age and the excellency of his ancient years and the honour of his gray head on which was come and his most honest education from a child or rather the holy law made and given by God therefore he answered accordingly and willed them straightaway to send him to the grave; 24 For it is unbecoming of our age he said in any way to dissemble whereby many young persons might think that Eleazar being fourscore years old and ten were now gone to a strange religion; 25 And so they through my hypocrisy and desire to live a little time and a moment longer should be deceived by me and I get a stain to my old age and make it abominable


    2. Sheila began to have second thoughts of the wisdom of having pushed her way in here, but saw the need to dissemble now and hope to gain her freedom later when she might not be surrounded by fake-friendly men and women who didn't boggle at pushing her around


    3. He could dissemble and inveigle with the best of them


    4. He did not seem to notice the actions she sought to dissemble


    5. He began to tremble, and could not dissemble


    6. This man carried himself with an erect, aggressive bearing that was too natural for him to realize it himself, much less dissemble it


    7. “You’re right, they didn’t,” Garcia said, fully prepared to dissemble, but with just enough truth to add credibility to his story


    8. ‘The perception that women are ambiguous by nature is not unfounded for they tend to dissemble


    9. He did this quite openly, before us all, seeing I suppose no reason why he should dissemble his interest in his future wife's dimples and curls


    10. Morrison could not for all that dissemble the disappointment and sternness of her heart, and the old lady glanced up at her as she came in with a kind of quavering fearfulness, like that of a little child who is afraid it may be going to be whipped, or of a conscientious dog who has lapsed unaccountably from rectitude

    11. Yet it often happens that rumors and whispers dissemble when


    12. It is better to dissemble your wrong and not give this wicked man the chance of entering the house now and finding us alone; consider, senora, we are weak women and he is a man, and determined, and as he comes with such a base purpose, blind and urged by passion, perhaps before you can put yours into execution he may do what will be worse for you than taking your life


    13. dissemble, that what they had heard was the truth


    14. Then said Christian, What means this? The Shepherds told them, This is a by-way to hell, a way that hypocrites go in at; namely, such as sell their birthright, with Esau; such as sell their master, with Judas; such as blaspheme the gospel, with Alexander; and that lie and dissemble, with Ananias and Sapphira his wife


    15. The potential consequences if those who’d trusted them discovered they’d been lied to were bad enough to contemplate, but for all the masks Aivah had been forced to assume, all the times she’d had no choice but to dissemble, her position was as driven by moral considerations as by pragmatism


    16. She but she could dissemble that hate


    17. Only a narrow, vulgar Soul could so dissemble


    18. Yet without power to kill, or change, or shun the fact; he likewise knew that to mankind he did long dissemble; in some sort, did still


    19. I had taken for granted that he would dissemble, but he had begun upon it with such bluntnesf


    20. Yes, he had a nature like crystal, you could see him right through; he could not lie, he could not dissemble; not simply thin skinned, but with all his nerves laid bare, as if he were flayed

    21. "They don't even take pains to dissemble; they certainly don't mince matters as far as I am concerned: that is something, at all events! Since Porphyrius knew next to nothing about me, why on earth should he have spoken with Nicodemus Thomich Zametoff at all? They even scorn to deny that they are on my track, almost like a pack of hounds! They certainly speak out plainly enough!" he said, trembling with rage


    22. Upon what ground, then, sir, is it that we are called on to pass this additional non-importation act against Great Britain? If France has revoked her decrees, is not a non-importation with Great Britain inevitable, and does it not exist? But I will put the key to the door; let us not dissemble; France has not revoked, and for that cause and that alone, has the question arisen, whether there be at this time a legal non-importation with Great Britain


    1. An hour or so later, the last tents were dissembled and packed while Adem trotted around in the saddle


    2. He and Torkhan remained hidden in the forest, watching with hatred as the campsite was dissembled


    3. There were more tents if needed, but the weather allowed for a makeshift campsite that could be easily dissembled


    4. 20 For you dissembled in


    5. dissembled neither would he let Jonathan go


    6. 30 For you have killed your brother and has dissembled before me, and did imagine in your heart that I saw you not, nor knew all your actions


    7. 11 Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them, for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff


    8. 30 For you have killed your brother and has dissembled before me and did imagine in your heart that I saw you not nor knew all your actions


    9. 53 Nevertheless he dissembled in all that ever he spoke and estranged himself from Jonathan neither rewarded he him according to the benefits which he had received of him but troubled him very sore


    10. 19 So he sent them the children and the hundred talents: However Tryphon dissembled neither would he let Jonathan go

    11. “We covered a lot of territory that was not germane to the issue at hand,” Timothy dissembled


    12. When, coming out of his laboratory to meals, he found her not at the table but on the sofa, her face turned to the wall and buried in an orange so that the dinner smell might be in some small measure dissembled and cloaked, he often patted her before beginning to eat and said, "Poor little woman


    13. those perhaps greater of a dissembled one which gave me an air of


    14. "Perhaps," added the scout, losing his dissembled coolness exactly in proportion as the other manifested an indifference to the exchange, "if I should condition to teach your young men the real virtue of the we'pon, it would smoothe the little differences in our judgments


    15. of a real maid, at least with those perhaps greater of a dissembled one which gave me an air of confusion and bashfulness that maiden-modesty had all the honour of, and was indeed scarce distinguishable from it, even by less partial eyes than those of my lover: so let me call him, for I ever thought the term "cully" too cruel a reproach to the men, for their abused weakness for us


    1. He who hates dissembles with his lips, and lays up deceit within him; when he speaks fair, do not believe him


    2. Rone, however, quietly dissembles


    1. Amalrus shrugged his shoulders, smiled whimsically and reached for a goblet, dissembling his fear and fury


    2. Dissimulation: The act of dissembling; concealing true thoughts and intentions by falsehood and hypocrisy


    3. This entailed the dissembling of the ruling elite and their wealth, the military systems of


    4. I had left her only the evening before, so fully, so firmly resolved within my self on doing right! A few hours were to have engaged her to me for ever; and I remember how happy, how gay were my spirits, as I walked from the cottage to Allenham, satisfied with myself, delighted with every body! But in this, our last interview of friendship, I approached her with a sense of guilt that almost took from me the power of dissembling


    5. A wariness of mind he would answer as fitted all and, laying hand to jaw, he said dissembling, as his wont was, that as it was informed him, who had ever loved the art of physic as might a layman, and agreeing also with his experience of so seldomseen an accident it was good for that mother Church belike at one blow had birth and death pence and in such sort deliverly he scaped their questions


    6. It was the least ignoble form of dissembling forced upon him by that parody of civilized institutions which offended his intelligence, his uprightness, and his sense of right


    7. They yelled "Viva Montero! Viva Pedrito!" In order to make them still more enthusiastic, and from the natural pleasure he had in dissembling, he dropped the reins on his horse's neck, and with a tremendous effect of familiarity and confidence slipped his hands under the arms of Senores Fuentes and Gamacho


    8. Hadn’t he told Pulaski that the goal was just to finish the profile? And yet there was this dissembling body, this conglomerate Richard, returning to the kitchen, reiterating that he was sure Samantha would be okay (which he wasn’t), and that Carmine should get some sleep (which he probably couldn’t), and just generally knitting that doily of horseshit you were expected to insert between the bereaved and the fact that no one, in the end, made it out of this life alive


    9. The dissembling sun had dropped halfway down the sky without seeming to traverse any of the space in between


    10. ‘You did a good job of dissembling, but someone unfamiliar with the smuggling trade would never have found it

    11. What wicked and dissembling glass of mine


    12. But that thing of his dissembling was only subject to his perceptibility, not to his will determinate


    13. Nevertheless, so well did he succeed in that dissembling, that when with ivory leg he stepped ashore at last, no Nantucketer thought him otherwise than but naturally grieved, and that to the quick, with the terrible casualty which had overtaken him


    14. She saw that I was dissembling, but looked straight at me cheerfully and simply


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    Synonyms for "dissemble"

    affect dissemble feign pretend sham act cloak mask conceal camouflage cover hide shroud forge fake simulate deceive

    "dissemble" definitions

    make believe with the intent to deceive


    hide under a false appearance


    behave unnaturally or affectedly