he dissembled happiness at the news that his old girlfriend was getting married—to someone else children learn to dissemble at a surprisingly early age

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While some models may dissemble with relative ease, such a convenience may hamper its durability. Anthony Marcusa, chicagotribune.com, "The best dip station," 22 Aug. 2020

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, "Ex-Ebay Execs Allegedly Made Life Hell for Critics," 15 June 2020

The various forms of dissembling about vote fraud, however, at least have a clear tactical purpose. Matthew Yglesias, Vox, "Trump’s latest interview shows a president who’s in way over his head," 15 Nov. 2018

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, "Review: ‘Deerskin’ is an entrancingly warped love story between a man and his jacket," 30 Apr. 2020

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, "Sanders Didn’t Have What It Takes," 18 Mar. 2020

That was rich coming from a U.S. regime that refused to stop strangling the Iranian economy out of pure spiteful malice and whose own response has been defined by dissembling and delay. Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, "The U.S. coronavirus outbreak is going to be worse than Iran's," 27 Mar. 2020

Those remarks, and attempts by senior administration officials to explain them, have fueled charges by Democratic lawmakers, and some Republicans, that the administration has dissembled in its justification for the killing. Karen Deyoung, Anchorage Daily News, "Senior Trump officials struggle to explain intelligence behind killing of Iranian general," 13 Jan. 2020

Everything so far has been dissembling, denial, pointing the finger somewhere else. Washington Post, "CEO will tell Congress that Boeing made mistakes on Max jet," 28 Oct. 2019

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