Example sentences for: dissembled

How can you use “dissembled” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It is certainly possible that he has dissembled about some aspects of his story, perhaps to counter suspicion.

  • Other euphemisms for lying that were used included excessive statements, outright misrepresentation, dissembled, prudent to change those chronologies , and radically different from the facts . The concept of “plausible deniability” is a variation on the theme of avoiding the recognition or the admission of lying.

  • The NYT is admirably clear about the context producing such skepticism: "The tobacco industry has dissembled so often in the past--about whether cigarettes cause diseases, about whether nicotine is addictive, about whether they market their product to children--that people are never sure what to make of the companies' pronouncements."

  • Now, if only the Times had said "lied" instead of "dissembled".


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