| 词汇 | dissembling |
| 释义 | dissembling present participle ofdissemble dissemble verb[ I ] formaluk /dɪˈsem.bəl/ us /dɪˈsem.bəl/ to hide your real intentions and feelings or the facts: 掩盖，掩饰（动机、感情、真相等） He accused the government of dissembling.他指责政府掩盖真相。 to act as if something is true when it is not pretendShe pretended not to know about the surprise. make believeHe's just going to make believe that things are fine in spite of the divorce. play at somethingUK The children are playing at cops and robbers. role-playDuring class, we role-played being a customer and a salesperson to learn words related to shopping. fakeShe's only faking being ill. feignThe police questioned him about the break-in, but he feigned ignorance. Faking & pretending affect air guitar assume believe bluff someone into something/doing something changeling cry faker false false modesty falsifiable falsify out-bluff pass something off as something phoney phony-baloney play-act professed purport quackery You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Hiding and disguising Examples of dissemblingdissembling In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The incentive to game the system and for such analytic dissembling is obvious. His acting, however, is interpreted as a form of female dissembling ("there's a woman underneath"); his mask reveals - even intensifies - exactly what it is intended to conceal. That is, children who expect a supportive response to their emotional displays are more likely to express emotion, whereas children who expect a negative interpersonal response report dissembling emotional expression. Incapable of dissembling, he found having to review what he discerned to be self-regarding works and performances increasingly trying. To say that someone is "dissembling" means that they are telling untruths. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Any kind of dissembling or lying is obviously regrettable and not acceptable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But none of us can charge him justly with dissembling. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One thing that worries us is the degree of dissembling which has gone on over the years in official answers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A great deal of misinformation and dissembling has been going on, which has scared and unsettled many teachers and retired teachers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it not they who are dissembling—because they would be spending on assembling the assembly, with all the costs that that bureaucracy would involve? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If they have any such good feeling they are very good at dissembling their love for the self-employed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They were dissatisfied with the reply, which they found to be dissembling. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Will he now take down the posters that falsely claim that he cut tax, or is he going to carry on dissembling? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Should not someone in his ministerial team have the simple integrity to accept responsibility for six years of departmental dissembling? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I will first state my preferred position, so that there can be no dissembling about it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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