How to Use dissemble in a Sentence

dissemble

verb

• Three federal trial judges have ruled that the evidence in the record demonstrates that Mr. Ross was dissembling.
  — New York Times, 12 June 2019
• The sort of socio-political tastemaker who not so long ago denied the problem, has moved on to dissembling about it instead.
  — Rachel M. Cohen, New Republic, 3 Aug. 2017
• Apologists for the idea like to dissemble on this question by insisting that the records would be kept by third parties or that they would be decentralized.
  — The Editors, National Review, 9 Aug. 2019
• No dissembling politicians would be arrested for their lies.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2019
• Most notable was Sean Spicer, the dissembling former press secretary, who hid in -- correction: among -- some bushes on the White House grounds rather than confront a hungry pack of reporters.
  — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 29 Sep. 2017
• Under those faintly menacing tendrils, people change, become furtive, dissembling, with it, rotten as the jungles whence come the plants.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 20 June 2018
• The Ebay team allegedly continued to dissemble, both to law enforcement and to Ebay’s own lawyers, who by August 26 had begun to conduct their own interviews about the matter.
  — Brian Barrett, Wired, 15 June 2020
• Anna hemmed and hawed and dissembled and prevaricated and, as the women got increasingly angry, allowed two fat tears to roll down her cheeks.
  — Jessica Pressler, The Cut, 28 May 2018
• Everything so far has been dissembling, denial, pointing the finger somewhere else.
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
• The panels of beef emerge beautifully tender, the connecting stitches of fat visible to the eye but dissembling immediately on the tongue.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2018
• Each read the other’s blundering and dissembling as intentional, deepening suspicions among hard-liners that the other side was laying the groundwork for war.
  — Max Fisher, The Seattle Times, 14 Jan. 2018
• The animus of this chaotic novel would seem to be Rushdie’s abiding horror at the political ascension of a dissembling reality TV star.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2019
• The doctors attending him are public servants and shouldn’t dissemble or strategize when answering questions that citizens are entitled to ask.
  — Star Tribune, 7 Oct. 2020
• Presidents, to be sure, have long dissembled on matters of national security.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2017
• Obama email exchanges, but also that Obama dissembled about his knowledge of Clinton’s private email use in a nationally televised interview.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 23 Jan. 2018
• Sacramento may not know how to manage money and prioritize spending, but legislative leaders do know how to dissemble and divert public attention from the reality of the budget process.
  — Vince Fong, Orange County Register, 27 May 2017
• In the view of most Americans, the Lewinsky story, although pathetic and unnerving, never amounted to a case sufficient to justify Clinton’s removal from office, even when attached to Clinton’s dissembling under oath about the matter.
  — Sean Wilentz, The New Yorker, 11 July 2019
• Instead the White House has disregarded these legitimate congressional inquiries and dissembled about basic facts.
  — Alana Abramson, Time, 24 June 2019
• Instead, the White House has disregarded these legitimate congressional inquiries and dissembled about basic facts.
  — NBC News, 24 June 2019
• And when Denise becomes Georges’ eager collaborator and chief financier, Haenel’s flinty-eyed intelligence becomes a vital counterpoint to Dujardin’s dissembling idiocy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2020
• As commentators across the ideological spectrum have come to see, Hillary Clinton’s ongoing dissembling about the 2016 election has finally veered into something like absurdist comedy.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 2 June 2017
• Unhealthy dynamics promote dissembling where directness serves us best, unfortunately.
  — Carolyn Hax, idahostatesman, 22 Jan. 2018
• Before fixing, explaining, interpreting, dissembling, or devil’s advocating.
  — Ronnie Polaneczky, Philly.com, 9 Mar. 2018

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