How to Use dissemble in a Sentence
dissemble
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Three federal trial judges have ruled that the evidence in the record demonstrates that Mr. Ross was dissembling.
—New York Times, 12 June 2019
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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
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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
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No dissembling politicians would be arrested for their lies.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Everything so far has been dissembling, denial, pointing the finger somewhere else.
—Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Presidents, to be sure, have long dissembled on matters of national security.
—Mark Landler, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2017
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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
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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
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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
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Instead the White House has disregarded these legitimate congressional inquiries and dissembled about basic facts.
—Alana Abramson, Time, 24 June 2019
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Instead, the White House has disregarded these legitimate congressional inquiries and dissembled about basic facts.
—NBC News, 24 June 2019
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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
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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
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Unhealthy dynamics promote dissembling where directness serves us best, unfortunately.
—Carolyn Hax, idahostatesman, 22 Jan. 2018
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Before fixing, explaining, interpreting, dissembling, or devil’s advocating.
—Ronnie Polaneczky, Philly.com, 9 Mar. 2018
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