- present participle of dissemble.
dissembling
Example Sentences
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Dissembling about his origins, she raises him as if she were his mother.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2010
Dissembling his eagerness, John nodded a greeting in his direction, and, passing over to the corner of the grocery sacred to the Government pigeonholes, asked for the Derwent mail.
From The Opened Shutters by Burnham, Clara Louise
Desires, 162 Difficulty, 163 Dissembling, 164 Dreams, ibid.
From A Character of King Charles the Second by Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of
Dissembling their hate and fear they called like trembling necromancers when they invoke the fiend upon the name of power.
From Lectures and Essays by Smith, Goldwin
Dissembling her grief, Charles rose to her feet and gave directions that the bodies of the captain and her brother should be buried in their clothes and wrapped in the flag of the country.
From Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius by O'Reilly, A. J. (Augustine J.)
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