dissembled
Example Sentences
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He was said to have dissembled when people on the call asked about whether repeat shop lifters or people who commit assaults without a weapon would be prosecuted and face jail terms.
From Fox News • Jan. 20, 2022
Politicians have exaggerated and dissembled since time immemorial, including in their email dispatches.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 13, 2021
Instead of transparency, however, Mr. Hogan dissembled, backed by a Greek chorus of question-dodging, hairsplitting, fast-talking officials in his administration.
From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2020
Like most gay people in his situation, at first he dissembled or pretended to be straight, since that was the only way to get around the ban.
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2020
Yea and moreover, one war springeth of another: of a dissembled war there cometh war indeed, and of a very small, a right great war hath risen.
From Against War by Erasmus, Desiderius
