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Definition of Dissembled

Dissembled
Dissemble Dis*sem"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dissembled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dissembling.] [OF. dissembler to be dissimilar; pref. dis- (L. dis-) + F. sembler to seem, L. simulare to simulate; cf. L. dissimulare to dissemble. See Simulate, and cf. Dissimulate.] 1. To hide under a false semblance or seeming; to feign (something) not to be what it really is; to put an untrue appearance upon; to disguise; to mask. Dissemble all your griefs and discontents. --Shak. Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But -- why did you kick me down stairs? --J. P. Kemble. 2. To put on the semblance of; to make pretense of; to simulate; to feign. He soon dissembled a sleep. --Tatler. Syn: To conceal; disguise; cloak; cover; equivocate. See Conceal.

Meaning of Dissembled from wikipedia

- advised in The Prince that a prince must become a "great feigner and dissembler." Thomas Hobbes wrote in Leviathan: "In war, force and fraud are the two...
- "Culture of dissemblance" describes a "cult of secrecy" practiced by black women in the Reconstruction era American Middle West to "protect the sanctity...
- The Dissembled Wanton is a 1726 comedy play by the British writer Leonard Welsted. The original Lincoln's Inn Fields cast included James Quin as Lord Severne...
- Tomb of the Cybermen when the Doctor is identified as "English" and, dissembling, plays along. Though David Tennant speaks with a natural Scottish accent...
- Look up LIE, Lie, lie, dissemble, or fibbing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A lie is a type of deception, an untruth or not telling the truth. Lie...
- Polk, Khary (Summer 2013). "Malcolm X, ****ual Hearsay, and Masculine Dissemblance". Biography. 36 (3): 568–584. doi:10.1353/bio.2013.0029. JSTOR 24570210...
- bitter irony: In opposition to this [modesty], could I not have acted the dissembler? I hear that there has even been an edict sent forth, and a peremptory...
- Putin after Russia annexed Crimea were engaging in at least some form of dissembling and that this rallying developed as a rapid cascade, with social media...
- later forced to resign later that year after it was found that he had "dissembled" in his evidence to the Standards and Privileges Committee over whether...
- in his 1544 Excuse à messieurs les Nicodemites referring to religious dissemblers in France—outwardly, conforming Catholics; inwardly, adherents of Protestantism...