How to Use dissemble in a Sentence

dissemble

verb
  • Hearts dissemble, jealousies can spring up out of nowhere and erotic desire leads everyone astray.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2023
  • Service ☆☆ Someone on staff should have warned us about the crab’s pricing, and instructed on how to dissemble the crab.
    — Carla Meyer, sacbee.com, 18 May 2017
  • The various forms of dissembling about vote fraud, however, at least have a clear tactical purpose.
    — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 15 Nov. 2018
  • The sort of socio-political tastemaker who not so long ago denied the problem, has moved on to dissembling about it instead.
    — Rachel M. Cohen, New Republic, 3 Aug. 2017
  • Everything so far has been dissembling, denial, pointing the finger somewhere else.
    — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Apologists for the idea like to dissemble on this question by insisting that the records would be kept by third parties or that they would be decentralized.
    — The Editors, National Review, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Under those faintly menacing tendrils, people change, become furtive, dissembling, with it, rotten as the jungles whence come the plants.
    — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 20 June 2018
  • While some models may dissemble with relative ease, such a convenience may hamper its durability.
    — Anthony Marcusa, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2020
  • Anna hemmed and hawed and dissembled and prevaricated and, as the women got increasingly angry, allowed two fat tears to roll down her cheeks.
    — Jessica Pressler, The Cut, 28 May 2018
  • Presidents, to be sure, have long dissembled on matters of national security.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2017
  • When McKenzie asks him how much he’s contributed to the coffers of politicians, his dodging of the question is pure dissembling theater.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The doctors attending him are public servants and shouldn’t dissemble or strategize when answering questions that citizens are entitled to ask.
    — Star Tribune, 7 Oct. 2020
  • This facility will soon mandate that all visitors be vaccinated, but my relative plans to dissemble in order to evade the requirement.
    — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The panels of beef emerge beautifully tender, the connecting stitches of fat visible to the eye but dissembling immediately on the tongue.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Among the interested parties were shipbreakers planning to dissemble the vessel for scrap metal, according to Saw.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Each read the other’s blundering and dissembling as intentional, deepening suspicions among hard-liners that the other side was laying the groundwork for war.
    — Max Fisher, The Seattle Times, 14 Jan. 2018
  • The defense of Putin’s regime has been offered by people operating as literary critics, ever disassembling and dissembling.
    — Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
  • But what revolutionary change in technology and lifestyle didn’t manage to do in convincing us that a new day has dawned, a president who dissembles, distorts, lies and recklessly attacks has.
    — David Zurawik, baltimoresun.com, 10 May 2018
  • Sacramento may not know how to manage money and prioritize spending, but legislative leaders do know how to dissemble and divert public attention from the reality of the budget process.
    — Vince Fong, Orange County Register, 27 May 2017
  • Many of Sanders’s supporters are going to be bitter that Joe Biden is defeating him while constantly lying and dissembling about his own record as a senator and about his own positions since then.
    — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 18 Mar. 2020
  • The animus of this chaotic novel would seem to be Rushdie’s abiding horror at the political ascension of a dissembling reality TV star.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Instead the White House has disregarded these legitimate congressional inquiries and dissembled about basic facts.
    — Alana Abramson, Time, 24 June 2019
  • Unhealthy dynamics promote dissembling where directness serves us best, unfortunately.
    — Carolyn Hax, idahostatesman, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Instead, the White House has disregarded these legitimate congressional inquiries and dissembled about basic facts.
    — NBC News, 24 June 2019
  • The Ebay team allegedly continued to dissemble, both to law enforcement and to Ebay’s own lawyers, who by August 26 had begun to conduct their own interviews about the matter.
    — Brian Barrett, Wired, 15 June 2020
  • Instead, whole grains and foods are dissembled into molecules which, with the help of artificial colorings, flavorings and gluelike emulsifiers, are heated, pounded, shaped or extruded into any food a manufacturer can dream up.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Authorities were forced to dissemble the back deck in order to rescue some of the pups that were beneath, according to the Strong Island Animal Rescue League, who assisted with the efforts.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2025
  • With his multi-instrumentalist bandmates, PJ Moore and co-songwriter Robert Bell, Buchanan zooms into these exchanges to prolong them or dissembles them into jagged pieces that leave the bigger picture to us.
    — Sam Sodomsky, Pitchfork, 1 Feb. 2026
  • And when Denise becomes Georges’ eager collaborator and chief financier, Haenel’s flinty-eyed intelligence becomes a vital counterpoint to Dujardin’s dissembling idiocy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2020
  • Putin’s constant lies and dissembling undermined his credibility to international interlocutors, such as President Emmanuel Macron of France.
    — Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2022

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