Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But - why did you kick me down stairs?.    From LearnThat.org.  [John Philip Kemble (1757-1823), English actor, company manager, from The Panel. Act i. Sc. 1.]

STEWART: Actually, Mr. President, "dissemble" means to not tell the truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2005] Reference

Use the word, "dissemble" or "disingenuous," if you will, but let's call it what it really is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom D'Antoni: Sen. Clinton's Own Religious Cult Includes Brownback, Santorum] Reference

BP's top execs dissemble with our glasses raised on high.    From Wordnik.com.  [Week 880: Our most famous neologism contest, and the winning oil spill song parodies] Reference

And my policy was to dissemble, like the man in a melodrama.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

As December tries to dissemble the length of their working day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Weakerthans: Curlers, Bigfoot-Spotters Unite] Reference

"It was all very well to dissemble his love," quoted Mr Moynham.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Finch's Monkey and How he Dined with the Admiral] Reference

When they are sufficiently strong, they will no longer dissemble.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference

Sun, though but a young man, knew how to dissemble, and spoke in such.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference

Perhaps I am; but then, Thomas, I have never been taught to dissemble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference

I want desperately to be bluff and outspoken, but I suppose I must dissemble.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference

Bernardin refused to piously dissemble about his own fears and failing health.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art Of Dying Well] Reference

Why should you imagine I would wish to deny it, or dissemble it as a weakness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference

They consult when unable to dissemble; they determine when not liable to mistake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus] Reference

The candidates dissemble because they believe that Americans don't want the truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Truth Serum] Reference

He would dissemble, then he would be better able to find a pretext for an argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

"In sooth, señora, till you first taught me to dissemble I was unlessoned in the art.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference

Republicans dissemble, having long ago ceded the right to talk about free energy markets.    From Wordnik.com.  [A GOP Energy Alternative] Reference

They will often feel they have no choice but to dissemble so they can meet their numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Avoid Being Lied To] Reference

Fourthly, when she doth dissemble, and covertly and falsely either doth or saith anything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meditations] Reference

They consult, when they know not how to dissemble; they determine, when they cannot mistake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tacitus on Germany] Reference

He said that he stood ready to pray, toil, dissemble, plot like a fox and fight like a tiger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference

"Those cigars will lead to a catastrophe, if I don't use prudence and dissemble," said I to myself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

And let no one of you, I say, try to dissemble regarding this withdrawal, nor hesitate to call it flight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI.] Reference

Couples who cordially hate each other, but dissemble their aversion under the appearance of love, 162,320.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference

The dress limited the president's leeway, if he were so inclined, to fudge or dissemble before the grand jury.    From Wordnik.com.  [Extracting A Confession] Reference

We need to mediate the interests of globalism as well as its efforts to dissemble the democratic social contract.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Ehrmann: Obama's Campaign Guru Bombs in Brazil] Reference

I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference

Naipaul is a difficult, imperfect narrator who does not care to be liked, but he is an honest one and doesn't dissemble.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief by VS Naipaul] Reference

She must dissemble, mask her face with indifference, if possible with tenderness, and undertake the difficult task of separating.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Arethusa was a woefully transparent young person; she had never learned there are times when it might seem best to dissemble a little.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference

In which case the subject became rather difficult; she did not know whether to dissemble, nor how much to dissemble, nor how to do it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wrong Woman] Reference

To make this happen Latin America needs to mediate the interests of globalism and its efforts to dissemble the democratic social contract.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Ehrmann: Obama's Campaign Guru Bombs in Brazil] Reference