Definition of dissemble in English:

dissemble

verb dɪˈsɛmb(ə)ldəˈsɛmbəl

[no object]

1Conceal or disguise one's true feelings or beliefs.
an honest, sincere person with no need to dissemble
Example sentencesExamples
- He said: ‘We have a string of denials, of discrepancies and dissembling on the part of Downing Street.’
- Even so, the intimate, dissembling, distant transmissions exchanged via these radioactive pieces of plastic thread through the album's episodic songs.
- Mr Secretary, you're dissembling, non-responsive.
- They are either deeply confused, or deliberately dissembling.
- Before you write anything, before you take their word for anything, you ought to carefully study the possibility that they are dissembling.
- You're with Radio National's Background Briefing, and today we probe the smoky world of ambiguities, misinformation, dissembling and not so much lies, as the avoidance of truth.
- It is now clear, however, that this was just the first stage in the Government's dissembling over the presentation of a decision already taken.
- A kind of ‘covering fire’ across media battlefields makes it easier for the candidate to just keep on dissembling.
- More interestingly, ravens seem to know when other ravens are checking them out, and are able to dissemble and deceive.
- Women writers developed an artistry of indirection, dissembling, splitting, masking, and coding to get their anger out into the public sphere.
- Moreover, emotions are ‘produced,’ constructed rather than inherent, and thus can be faked or dissembled.
- And the others, the other scientific advisers and other military officers, senior officials who were in our hands, you sense they're still dissembling as well?
- The media is largely compliant - being so popular, and now in your third term, no-one is game to take you on or push you to answer questions, so you get away with dissembling, even lies.
- But the surest way to fuel anti-migrant prejudice is for government to be seen to be dissembling or downplaying the extent or consequences of migration: honesty is the only viable policy.
- Poker also requires analytical skill, but above all it requires skill in bluffing and dissembling.
- Everytime a politician speaks, you know, they're fooling you, they're dissembling.
- He can plot and plan, lie and dissemble without fear of contradiction or enquiry, let alone protest.
- Dionne's commendably honest assessment at the end of the piece is at odds with his earlier dissembling.
- It is time to stop dissembling, delaying and deceiving.
- Strauss goes so far as to say that dissembling and deception-in effect, a culture of lies-is the peculiar justice of the wise.
Synonyms
dissimulate, pretend, deceive, feign, act, masquerade, sham, fake, bluff, counterfeit, pose, posture, hide one's feelings, be dishonest, put on a false front, lie
cover up, conceal, disguise, hide, mask, veil, shroud
1. 1.1with object Disguise or conceal (a feeling or intention)
  she smiled, dissembling her true emotion
  Example sentencesExamples
  Melissa dissembled acceptance and showed only a little of how hurt she felt by this treatment and asked if he would help her understand what she had missed.
  Burke never dissembled the existence of the real misery that he observed in civil society.
  Poussin, who seems to privilege the world image per se, dissembles such spatiotemporal leaps within the contiguous illusion-promoting signs of the depicted scene.
  Alan Bakke won his case, but universities continued to do to others what his medical school had done to him, being careful, however, to dissemble their actions behind the screen of diversity rhetoric.
  The state does not dilute or dissemble the gravity of the act.
  When Agrippina decided to show sympathy for Claudius' natural son Britannicus in 55, she sealed his doom, though the poisoning was not overt and could be dissembled, as by Seneca, who wrote praising Nero's clemency in the next year.
  In melodrama the characters are templates for the tracing of society's invisible or ideologically dissembled ministers of power, while the narrative unwinds the psychological machinery of their enforcement.
  No longer need the ailing woman pass through the smiling derisive rows of courtiers, fearing their eyes, dreading the falling of her rose and catching her breath as she dissembled a vivacity that amused the King.
  But you study him, you look into his eyes and know he dissembles an emotion which he does not feel in the depths of his being because he has no capacity for it.
  If she were such an abyss of insincerity as to dissemble distrust under such frankness, she must at least be more subtle than to bring her doubts to her rival for solution.
  Unfolding thus entails temporality, which is said to dissemble the essential.
  Out of self-interest, rich or eminent people who would curry popular favor to gain political office will dissemble their selfishness and pride.
  But, in fact, the Captain dissembles his own allegiances.
  The male narrators offer the woman's body as the place where they are momentarily free from the pressures of dissembling a myth of themselves.
  ‘Realistic, illusionist art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art.

Derivatives

dissemblance

noun

The day will provide an exciting opportunity for anyone interested in the theatre make-up, whether beginner or as more advanced to learn a great deal more about the mechanics of dramatic dissemblance.
Example sentencesExamples
- In adopting dissemblance, Daniels, Bigger, and Wright covertly reject the status of the ‘other.’
- His dissemblance of a moderate was misleading and devious.
- In this respect the US nuclear policy has been one of dissemblance and equivocation.
- He conjured up a dissemblance of his own, a side-show of Powell being sent to the area of Sharon's crime against humanity to arrange a cease-fire.

dissembler

noun dɪˈsɛmblədəˈsɛmb(ə)lər

It was the lie of obfuscators and dissemblers, but a lie all the same.
Example sentencesExamples
- These two great dissemblers of global finance are not about third world ‘development’ or tackling world poverty.
- Recently at least, they are, for the most part, ignominious liars, dissemblers, shape-changers, not particularly attractive people, even by their own reckoning.
- Either he is a consummate actor and dissembler, or what he says is reasonable and fair.
- They are plotters, dissemblers, manipulators, murderers of children, fanatics.
Synonyms
liar, dissimulator, deceiver, deluder
humbug, bluffer, fraud, hoodwinker, impostor, actor, faker, hoaxer, charlatan, cheat, cheater

Origin

Late Middle English: alteration (suggested by semblance) of obsolete dissimule, via Old French from Latin dissimulare 'disguise, conceal'.

Rhymes

assemble, Kemble, resemble, tremble

Definition of dissemble in US English:

dissemble

verbdəˈsɛmbəldəˈsembəl

[no object]

1Conceal one's true motives, feelings, or beliefs.
an honest, sincere person with no need to dissemble
Example sentencesExamples
- They are either deeply confused, or deliberately dissembling.
- Before you write anything, before you take their word for anything, you ought to carefully study the possibility that they are dissembling.
- But the surest way to fuel anti-migrant prejudice is for government to be seen to be dissembling or downplaying the extent or consequences of migration: honesty is the only viable policy.
- Dionne's commendably honest assessment at the end of the piece is at odds with his earlier dissembling.
- Women writers developed an artistry of indirection, dissembling, splitting, masking, and coding to get their anger out into the public sphere.
- Mr Secretary, you're dissembling, non-responsive.
- Everytime a politician speaks, you know, they're fooling you, they're dissembling.
- Even so, the intimate, dissembling, distant transmissions exchanged via these radioactive pieces of plastic thread through the album's episodic songs.
- Moreover, emotions are ‘produced,’ constructed rather than inherent, and thus can be faked or dissembled.
- Poker also requires analytical skill, but above all it requires skill in bluffing and dissembling.
- He said: ‘We have a string of denials, of discrepancies and dissembling on the part of Downing Street.’
- It is time to stop dissembling, delaying and deceiving.
- A kind of ‘covering fire’ across media battlefields makes it easier for the candidate to just keep on dissembling.
- You're with Radio National's Background Briefing, and today we probe the smoky world of ambiguities, misinformation, dissembling and not so much lies, as the avoidance of truth.
- And the others, the other scientific advisers and other military officers, senior officials who were in our hands, you sense they're still dissembling as well?
- He can plot and plan, lie and dissemble without fear of contradiction or enquiry, let alone protest.
- It is now clear, however, that this was just the first stage in the Government's dissembling over the presentation of a decision already taken.
- The media is largely compliant - being so popular, and now in your third term, no-one is game to take you on or push you to answer questions, so you get away with dissembling, even lies.
- Strauss goes so far as to say that dissembling and deception-in effect, a culture of lies-is the peculiar justice of the wise.
- More interestingly, ravens seem to know when other ravens are checking them out, and are able to dissemble and deceive.
Synonyms
dissimulate, pretend, deceive, feign, act, masquerade, sham, fake, bluff, counterfeit, pose, posture, hide one's feelings, be dishonest, put on a false front, lie
1. 1.1with object Disguise or conceal (a feeling or intention)
  she smiled, dissembling her true emotion
  Example sentencesExamples
  Melissa dissembled acceptance and showed only a little of how hurt she felt by this treatment and asked if he would help her understand what she had missed.
  The state does not dilute or dissemble the gravity of the act.
  No longer need the ailing woman pass through the smiling derisive rows of courtiers, fearing their eyes, dreading the falling of her rose and catching her breath as she dissembled a vivacity that amused the King.
  If she were such an abyss of insincerity as to dissemble distrust under such frankness, she must at least be more subtle than to bring her doubts to her rival for solution.
  In melodrama the characters are templates for the tracing of society's invisible or ideologically dissembled ministers of power, while the narrative unwinds the psychological machinery of their enforcement.
  Unfolding thus entails temporality, which is said to dissemble the essential.
  Poussin, who seems to privilege the world image per se, dissembles such spatiotemporal leaps within the contiguous illusion-promoting signs of the depicted scene.
  But, in fact, the Captain dissembles his own allegiances.
  ‘Realistic, illusionist art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art.
  When Agrippina decided to show sympathy for Claudius' natural son Britannicus in 55, she sealed his doom, though the poisoning was not overt and could be dissembled, as by Seneca, who wrote praising Nero's clemency in the next year.
  Burke never dissembled the existence of the real misery that he observed in civil society.
  The male narrators offer the woman's body as the place where they are momentarily free from the pressures of dissembling a myth of themselves.
  Out of self-interest, rich or eminent people who would curry popular favor to gain political office will dissemble their selfishness and pride.
  Alan Bakke won his case, but universities continued to do to others what his medical school had done to him, being careful, however, to dissemble their actions behind the screen of diversity rhetoric.
  But you study him, you look into his eyes and know he dissembles an emotion which he does not feel in the depths of his being because he has no capacity for it.

Origin

Late Middle English: alteration (suggested by semblance) of obsolete dissimule, via Old French from Latin dissimulare ‘disguise, conceal’.

单词	dissemble
释义	Definition of dissemble in English: dissemble verb dɪˈsɛmb(ə)ldəˈsɛmbəl [no object] 1Conceal or disguise one's true feelings or beliefs. an honest, sincere person with no need to dissemble Example sentencesExamples He said: ‘We have a string of denials, of discrepancies and dissembling on the part of Downing Street.’ Even so, the intimate, dissembling, distant transmissions exchanged via these radioactive pieces of plastic thread through the album's episodic songs. Mr Secretary, you're dissembling, non-responsive. They are either deeply confused, or deliberately dissembling. Before you write anything, before you take their word for anything, you ought to carefully study the possibility that they are dissembling. You're with Radio National's Background Briefing, and today we probe the smoky world of ambiguities, misinformation, dissembling and not so much lies, as the avoidance of truth. It is now clear, however, that this was just the first stage in the Government's dissembling over the presentation of a decision already taken. A kind of ‘covering fire’ across media battlefields makes it easier for the candidate to just keep on dissembling. More interestingly, ravens seem to know when other ravens are checking them out, and are able to dissemble and deceive. Women writers developed an artistry of indirection, dissembling, splitting, masking, and coding to get their anger out into the public sphere. Moreover, emotions are ‘produced,’ constructed rather than inherent, and thus can be faked or dissembled. And the others, the other scientific advisers and other military officers, senior officials who were in our hands, you sense they're still dissembling as well? The media is largely compliant - being so popular, and now in your third term, no-one is game to take you on or push you to answer questions, so you get away with dissembling, even lies. But the surest way to fuel anti-migrant prejudice is for government to be seen to be dissembling or downplaying the extent or consequences of migration: honesty is the only viable policy. Poker also requires analytical skill, but above all it requires skill in bluffing and dissembling. Everytime a politician speaks, you know, they're fooling you, they're dissembling. He can plot and plan, lie and dissemble without fear of contradiction or enquiry, let alone protest. Dionne's commendably honest assessment at the end of the piece is at odds with his earlier dissembling. It is time to stop dissembling, delaying and deceiving. Strauss goes so far as to say that dissembling and deception-in effect, a culture of lies-is the peculiar justice of the wise. Synonyms dissimulate, pretend, deceive, feign, act, masquerade, sham, fake, bluff, counterfeit, pose, posture, hide one's feelings, be dishonest, put on a false front, lie cover up, conceal, disguise, hide, mask, veil, shroud 1.1with object Disguise or conceal (a feeling or intention) she smiled, dissembling her true emotion Example sentencesExamples Melissa dissembled acceptance and showed only a little of how hurt she felt by this treatment and asked if he would help her understand what she had missed. Burke never dissembled the existence of the real misery that he observed in civil society. Poussin, who seems to privilege the world image per se, dissembles such spatiotemporal leaps within the contiguous illusion-promoting signs of the depicted scene. Alan Bakke won his case, but universities continued to do to others what his medical school had done to him, being careful, however, to dissemble their actions behind the screen of diversity rhetoric. The state does not dilute or dissemble the gravity of the act. When Agrippina decided to show sympathy for Claudius' natural son Britannicus in 55, she sealed his doom, though the poisoning was not overt and could be dissembled, as by Seneca, who wrote praising Nero's clemency in the next year. In melodrama the characters are templates for the tracing of society's invisible or ideologically dissembled ministers of power, while the narrative unwinds the psychological machinery of their enforcement. No longer need the ailing woman pass through the smiling derisive rows of courtiers, fearing their eyes, dreading the falling of her rose and catching her breath as she dissembled a vivacity that amused the King. But you study him, you look into his eyes and know he dissembles an emotion which he does not feel in the depths of his being because he has no capacity for it. If she were such an abyss of insincerity as to dissemble distrust under such frankness, she must at least be more subtle than to bring her doubts to her rival for solution. Unfolding thus entails temporality, which is said to dissemble the essential. Out of self-interest, rich or eminent people who would curry popular favor to gain political office will dissemble their selfishness and pride. But, in fact, the Captain dissembles his own allegiances. The male narrators offer the woman's body as the place where they are momentarily free from the pressures of dissembling a myth of themselves. ‘Realistic, illusionist art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art. Derivatives dissemblance noun The day will provide an exciting opportunity for anyone interested in the theatre make-up, whether beginner or as more advanced to learn a great deal more about the mechanics of dramatic dissemblance. Example sentencesExamples In adopting dissemblance, Daniels, Bigger, and Wright covertly reject the status of the ‘other.’ His dissemblance of a moderate was misleading and devious. In this respect the US nuclear policy has been one of dissemblance and equivocation. He conjured up a dissemblance of his own, a side-show of Powell being sent to the area of Sharon's crime against humanity to arrange a cease-fire. dissembler noun dɪˈsɛmblədəˈsɛmb(ə)lər It was the lie of obfuscators and dissemblers, but a lie all the same. Example sentencesExamples These two great dissemblers of global finance are not about third world ‘development’ or tackling world poverty. Recently at least, they are, for the most part, ignominious liars, dissemblers, shape-changers, not particularly attractive people, even by their own reckoning. Either he is a consummate actor and dissembler, or what he says is reasonable and fair. They are plotters, dissemblers, manipulators, murderers of children, fanatics. Synonyms liar, dissimulator, deceiver, deluder humbug, bluffer, fraud, hoodwinker, impostor, actor, faker, hoaxer, charlatan, cheat, cheater Origin Late Middle English: alteration (suggested by semblance) of obsolete dissimule, via Old French from Latin dissimulare 'disguise, conceal'. Rhymes assemble, Kemble, resemble, tremble Definition of dissemble in US English: dissemble verbdəˈsɛmbəldəˈsembəl [no object] 1Conceal one's true motives, feelings, or beliefs. an honest, sincere person with no need to dissemble Example sentencesExamples They are either deeply confused, or deliberately dissembling. Before you write anything, before you take their word for anything, you ought to carefully study the possibility that they are dissembling. But the surest way to fuel anti-migrant prejudice is for government to be seen to be dissembling or downplaying the extent or consequences of migration: honesty is the only viable policy. Dionne's commendably honest assessment at the end of the piece is at odds with his earlier dissembling. Women writers developed an artistry of indirection, dissembling, splitting, masking, and coding to get their anger out into the public sphere. Mr Secretary, you're dissembling, non-responsive. Everytime a politician speaks, you know, they're fooling you, they're dissembling. Even so, the intimate, dissembling, distant transmissions exchanged via these radioactive pieces of plastic thread through the album's episodic songs. Moreover, emotions are ‘produced,’ constructed rather than inherent, and thus can be faked or dissembled. Poker also requires analytical skill, but above all it requires skill in bluffing and dissembling. He said: ‘We have a string of denials, of discrepancies and dissembling on the part of Downing Street.’ It is time to stop dissembling, delaying and deceiving. A kind of ‘covering fire’ across media battlefields makes it easier for the candidate to just keep on dissembling. You're with Radio National's Background Briefing, and today we probe the smoky world of ambiguities, misinformation, dissembling and not so much lies, as the avoidance of truth. And the others, the other scientific advisers and other military officers, senior officials who were in our hands, you sense they're still dissembling as well? He can plot and plan, lie and dissemble without fear of contradiction or enquiry, let alone protest. It is now clear, however, that this was just the first stage in the Government's dissembling over the presentation of a decision already taken. The media is largely compliant - being so popular, and now in your third term, no-one is game to take you on or push you to answer questions, so you get away with dissembling, even lies. Strauss goes so far as to say that dissembling and deception-in effect, a culture of lies-is the peculiar justice of the wise. More interestingly, ravens seem to know when other ravens are checking them out, and are able to dissemble and deceive. Synonyms dissimulate, pretend, deceive, feign, act, masquerade, sham, fake, bluff, counterfeit, pose, posture, hide one's feelings, be dishonest, put on a false front, lie 1.1with object Disguise or conceal (a feeling or intention) she smiled, dissembling her true emotion Example sentencesExamples Melissa dissembled acceptance and showed only a little of how hurt she felt by this treatment and asked if he would help her understand what she had missed. The state does not dilute or dissemble the gravity of the act. No longer need the ailing woman pass through the smiling derisive rows of courtiers, fearing their eyes, dreading the falling of her rose and catching her breath as she dissembled a vivacity that amused the King. If she were such an abyss of insincerity as to dissemble distrust under such frankness, she must at least be more subtle than to bring her doubts to her rival for solution. In melodrama the characters are templates for the tracing of society's invisible or ideologically dissembled ministers of power, while the narrative unwinds the psychological machinery of their enforcement. Unfolding thus entails temporality, which is said to dissemble the essential. Poussin, who seems to privilege the world image per se, dissembles such spatiotemporal leaps within the contiguous illusion-promoting signs of the depicted scene. But, in fact, the Captain dissembles his own allegiances. ‘Realistic, illusionist art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art. When Agrippina decided to show sympathy for Claudius' natural son Britannicus in 55, she sealed his doom, though the poisoning was not overt and could be dissembled, as by Seneca, who wrote praising Nero's clemency in the next year. Burke never dissembled the existence of the real misery that he observed in civil society. The male narrators offer the woman's body as the place where they are momentarily free from the pressures of dissembling a myth of themselves. Out of self-interest, rich or eminent people who would curry popular favor to gain political office will dissemble their selfishness and pride. Alan Bakke won his case, but universities continued to do to others what his medical school had done to him, being careful, however, to dissemble their actions behind the screen of diversity rhetoric. But you study him, you look into his eyes and know he dissembles an emotion which he does not feel in the depths of his being because he has no capacity for it. Origin Late Middle English: alteration (suggested by semblance) of obsolete dissimule, via Old French from Latin dissimulare ‘disguise, conceal’.
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