Dissembling
[dɪ'sembəlɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dissemble
(a.) That dissembles; hypocritical; false.
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Examples
- All her efforts were now directed to the dissembling her internal conflict. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- You are only dissembling: you are not in earnest: you love him; you long for himbut you trifle with his heart to make him more surely yours? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But in this, our last interview of friendship, I approached her with a sense of guilt that almost took from me the power of dissembling. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
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