"I do not like dissemblance, Stephen," she warned. From Wordnik.com. [Then I'll Come Back to You] Reference
She was getting more practiced at this sort of dissemblance. From Wordnik.com. [Centaur Aisle]
The days of the "culture of dissemblance" and the "politics of silence" are over, sisters. From Wordnik.com. [Your Silence Will Not Protect You] Reference
“Propagandapple”: n.; ‘fruit of the tree of the knowledge of spin and dissemblance.’. From Wordnik.com. [Road Map « Climate Audit] Reference
Tan had come up with a masterpiece of dissemblance that gave him the complete advantage for the moment. From Wordnik.com. [Unicorn Point]
Repugs have contributed many new definitions of hypocrisy, double-talk, dissemblance, sanctimony, and insincerity. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 11, 2010] Reference
And John McCain, in his brief moment atop the party whose base so dislikes him, has racked up his own impressive record of dissemblance, too. From Wordnik.com. [Lee Daniels: McCain and Palin: The Dead-End of GOP Politics] Reference
Not much of it is favourable to Blair which is unsurprising bearing in mind that much of his conscious day must be spent in personal dissemblance. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-23] Reference
The dissemblance and concealment have succeeded, and the real dispute is not between Washington and Tehran, but within the U.S. administration itself. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
He has, after all, a track record of dishonesty, dissemblance, disingenuousness and dishonourable conduct that makes Gordon Brown look positively trustworthy. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-10-26] Reference
Pity that he could not under the terms of his address mention the intense damage the BBC has orchestrated in the UK in its ante-Israel bias and dissemblance of the facts. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
"In my experience, Cameron never gave a straight answer when dissemblance was a plausible alternative, which probably makes him perfectly suited for the role he now seeks: the next Tony Blair,". From Wordnik.com. [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference
As dissemblance goes, this is a half-pounder with cheese whopper, suggesting as it does that Campbell is in favour of a vote on the Treaty when in fact his position is diametrically the opposite. From Wordnik.com. [LibDem Whopper] Reference
If disability is a fiction, a collusion of semblances and dissemblance than autobiographical details may actually be revealing very little while serving as a set of pivot points to new forms--as in Alexander Technique. From Wordnik.com. [Trauma] Reference
For Quakers, even dissemblance and white lies are unacceptable. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
If it were our Barker who sat there his dissemblance was remarkable. From Wordnik.com. [Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others] Reference
It's all in the symbolism, or in the case of Palin, the dissemblance. From Wordnik.com. [Free Internet Press] Reference
Always a girl has to pretend that never did she descend to dissemblance. From Wordnik.com. [Hints for Lovers] Reference
The "cold disdain" is real, not assumed, and there is no "dissemblance of feminine affection.". From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Love and Love-Stories] Reference
Despite these efforts at dissemblance, the facts in the Hasan case speak clearly to a jihadist agenda. From Wordnik.com. [Campus Watch :: Writings] Reference
Islamic scholars and Mideast studies professors in American and European universities, surely deserves an award for dissemblance. From Wordnik.com. [The Rule of Reason] Reference
But it is to this dissemblance, if indeed one can speak of dissemblance, that her poetic work owes its poignant and evocative life. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature 1928 - Presentation Speech] Reference
They were won by lies, dissemblance and the entirely emotional appeal to USA FIRST at all costs-that and the costs of treading against it. From Wordnik.com. [appletree] Reference
Her heart was now too heavy and her thoughts too painful for much dissemblance; to keep her eyes downcast on the floor had become more a necessity than a ruse. From Wordnik.com. [Sanditon] Reference
For, this infinite varietie and dissemblance of lustres, makes a face so wan, so il-favored, and so uglie, in respect of theirs, that they lose much more than gaine thereby. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian] Reference
For, this infinite varietie and dissemblance of lustres, makes a face so wan, so ill-favored, and so uglie, in respect of theirs, that they lose much more than gaine thereby. From Wordnik.com. [Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson.] Reference
Rather she uses it as an example of her willful dissemblance at her ordination when asked to assent to and affirm the 39 Articles, a perjury that she seems to implicate the Diocesan bishop as being complicit with. From Wordnik.com. [An Exercise in the Fundamentals of Orthodoxy] Reference
It is that sense of truth and rectitude, that upright simplicity of mind, which disdains all crooked and indirect means, which would not stoop for an instant to dissemblance, and is mingled with a noble confidence in her love and in her lover. From Wordnik.com. [Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical] Reference
And the breach has ever gone on widening, the dissemblance has become more and more marked; and amidst the evolution of new societies, yet a fresh schism appears inevitable and proximate in spite of all the despairing efforts to maintain union. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete] Reference
And NPR’s subsidy is not simply 2%, as your dissemblance suggests. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Interviews:] Reference
#4, field stripping does not require dissemblance of the hand guard, that is only for cleaning purposes and even then not recommended. From Wordnik.com. [threebillion.com] Reference
Such dissemblance creates two problems. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
No evidence of dissemblance there. From Wordnik.com. [The Rule of Reason] Reference
O dissemblance!. From Wordnik.com. [The White Devil] Reference
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