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- Dictionarydissemble/dɪˈsɛmbl/
verb
- 1. conceal or disguise one's true feelings or beliefs: "an honest, sincere person with no need to dissemble"
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to hide your real intentions and feelings or the facts: He accused the government of dissembling. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. to act as if something is true when it is not. pretend She pretended not to know about the surprise. make believe He's just going to make believe that things are fine in spite of the divorce.
We have nothing to hide: dissemble (from the Latin verb dissimulāre, meaning “to disguise the identity of”) stresses the intent to deceive others, especially about facts, feelings, or intentions.
To dissemble is to pretend that you don't know something, to pretend that you think one way when you act another way. "He worked for six months at that company before they discovered he was dissembling: he had lied on his application about his credentials and education."
Dissemble definition: to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of. See examples of DISSEMBLE used in a sentence.
verb. When people dissemble, they hide their real intentions or emotions. [literary] Henry was not slow to dissemble when it served his purposes. [VERB] [Also VERB noun] Synonyms: hide, act, pretend, bluff More Synonyms of dissemble. More Synonyms of dissemble. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers.
verb. /dɪˈsembl/ [intransitive, transitive] (formal) Verb Forms. dissemble (something) to hide your real feelings or intentions, often by pretending to have different ones. She was a very honest person who was incapable of dissembling.
to hide your real intentions and feelings or the facts: He accused the government of dissembling. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. to act as if something is true when it is not. pretend She pretended not to know about the surprise. make believe He's just going to make believe that things are fine in spite of the divorce.
1. to conceal (one's real motives, emotions, etc) by pretence. 2. (tr) to pretend; simulate. 3. obsolete to ignore. [C15: from earlier dissimulen, from Latin dissimulāre; probably influenced by obsolete semble to resemble] disˈsemblance n. disˈsembler n. disˈsembling n, adj. disˈsemblingly adv.
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Dissemble definition: To disguise or conceal one's real nature, motives, or feelings behind a false appearance.
