dissemblance
Example Sentences
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Diana’s story is, for better and worse, the ultimate proof that glamour is not the same as happiness; indeed, it is an art of dissemblance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2021
For “The Water Diviner,” his muddled directorial debut about love in the time of war and dissemblance, Russell Crowe wanted to go full David Lean while nodding at Peter Weir’s “Gallipoli.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2015
As this latter animal is quite one-third head, he has no very great dissemblance to the alligator in this particular.
From The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers by Cooper, James Fenimore
To make the illusion of the past as complete as possible, and the dissemblance from the sailing ship as slight, the smoke-stack—or funnel—was telescopic, permitting it to be lowered almost out of sight.
From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
The "cold disdain" is real, not assumed, and there is no "dissemblance of feminine affection."
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus
