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    dissembling


    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 "dissembling"

    deceit deception dissembling dissimulation feigning pretence pretense

    "dissembling" definitions

    pretending with intention to deceive


    the act of deceiving