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dissemble

(dĭ-sĕm′bl)
To mislead, to give a false impression, or to conceal the truth.
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But if a man cannot obtain to that judgment, then it is left to bim generally, to be close, and a dissembler. For where a man cannot choose, or vary in particulars, there it is good to take the safest, and wariest way, in general; like the going softly, by one that cannot well see.
For the second, which is dissimulation; it followeth many times upon secrecy, by a necessity; so that he that will be secret, must be a dissembler in some degree.
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According to the royal father and cleric, it is noteworthy that under the present administration, ''dissemblers like Boko Haram and other anarchists have tasted the bitter pills.'
FG'll resist threat to national unity a Buhari
To that, Fox notes that Orlando's time with Sasha bears signs of influence from Hakluyt's accounts of the first Russian ambassador's visit to London in the mid-sixteenth century (46), while Orlando's thoughts about Russia itself and the insults he sends toward Sasha's fleeing vessel refer to Hakluyt's description of Russian people as "great talkers and lyers, without any faith or trust in their words, flatterers and dissemblers" (qtd in Fox, 48).
H.M.S. Orlando: The Metamorphosing, Imperial Vessel
Examples include More Dissemblers Besides Women (1615) where a dancing master's complaint about a page's performance includes 'O, O, O, O!
Much Virtue in O-Oh: A Case Study
Her parents were frantic dissemblers who struggled to conceal scandals of illegitimacy, abandonment and institutionalisation.
Revealing a person thought to be a recluse
Since to deal with political unpredictability requires that the princes rationality fosters his or her own unpredictability, foxes are the symbol of cunning rationality, or metis, because they not only recognize snares, but are also pretenders, dissemblers, traitors, and are unpredictable (Machiavelli 1998, [1515], XVIII, XIX; see also Blanchard, 1984; Pitkin, 1984; Rebhorn, 1988).
Metis and violence in Machiavellian political theory
Our great freedom is that we are not politicians, nor dissemblers for profit.
Going Crosstown: Four Poems About Race by White People
Back in 1997, The Times newspaper reviewer Gill described the Welsh as "loquacious, dissemblers, immoral liars, stunted, bigoted, dark, ugly, pugnacious little trolls" just two months after the narrow referendum 'Yes' vote.
100 years on - THEWELSH writer who hurled insults at his own; It drew the fury of an offended nation in a way that only the likes of Ann Robinson, Jeremy Clarkson or A A Gill could today. On the centenary of its publication, Darren Devine looks at how Caradoc Evans' book My People savaged the Welsh as avaricious, hypocritical and brutal..
You can't be successful with dissemblers. This couldn't be accomplished with bigot and radical people.
Bashar al-Assad: We would like to shape region's future with turkey
Regina Buccola interrogates the issue of gender issues in Shakespeare and Middleton by considering Measure for Measure alongside More Dissemblers Besides Women.
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Consider that even political dissemblers in New York state, for instance, are hardly likely to question the patriotism of Empire State companies for incorporating in Delaware.
Punishing businesses has consequences
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