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dissemblance
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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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