Crossword-Solution: DISSEMBLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dissemble | v. t. | 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 | v. t. | To put on the semblance of; to make pretense of; to simulate; to feign. |
| Dissemble | v. i. | To conceal the real fact, motives, /tention, or sentiments, under some pretense; to assume a false appearance; to act the hypocrite. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
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greedy person
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Sentences with DISSEMBLE (5)
The king suspected that his daughter was lying, or trying to lie--for the girl was so honest that she could not dissemble with conviction--so that he was now even more uncontrollably enraged than before; he now began screaming directly at his daughter and breaking larger and more expensive things.
With the brow of a fallen archangel, The lips of a beautiful fiend, And locks that are snake-like to strangle, And eyes from whose depths may be glean'd The presence of passions, that tremble Unbidden, yet shine as they may Through features too proud to dissemble, Too cold and too calm to betray Their secrets to creatures of clay.
Roby afterward described as the look of feeling for something in the back of her head; and before she could dissemble these momentary signs of weakness, Mrs.
Tell me now, did it not strike you as an inconsistency? Confess—it is useless to dissemble—it pained you?” “Yes,” said the boy.
His walk was almost a swagger, for thus does youth dissemble the bravery it yearns for but does not possess.
Quotes with DISSEMBLE (3)
Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.
Why did McNamara have such good figures? Why did McNamara have such good staff work and Ball such poor staff work? The next day Ball would angrily dispatch his staff to come up with the figures, to find out how McNamara had gotten them, and the staff would burrow away and occasionally find that one of the reasons that Ball did not have comparable figures was that they did not always exist. McNamara had invented them, he dissembled even within the bureaucracy, though, of cours…
It has become fashionable in the last several years for the media to minimize and even dissemble about the data which so strongly support the existence of ritual abuse. Amazingly, this has happened even in relation to ritual abuse cases in which criminal convictions have been obtained. Parenting magazine (Ruben, 1994), for example, asserted that “far more cases (of ritual abuse) end in acquittal” than in conviction. In fact, 58% of the ritual abuse cases in the Finkeihor (198…
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1965–2016).