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DISSEMBLE

 

(pronounced dih-sem-bul)

Part of Speech:

verb

 

Definition

to conceal or disguise under a false appearance;

 to conceal facts or ones true motives, feelings, nature, etc.

under a pretense.

 

 

Synonyms:

affect, camouflage, cloak, conceal, counterfeit, cover, cover up, dissimulate, double-talk, doublespeak, dress up, fake, falsify, feign, four-flush, hide, let on, make like, mask, pass, play possum, pussyfoot, put on a false front, put on a front, put on an act, put up a front, put up a smoke screen, sham*, shroud, shuck and jive, signify, simulate, stonewall, whitewash

Notes:

dissemble means to conceal, to give a false appearance; disassemble means to take apart

Antonyms:

admit, allow

 

Example sentences for dissemble

1. The need to keep it positive, even if it's not, puts stress on the spouse who must dissemble.

2. It never occurred to him to patronize students or to dissemble his thoughts.

3. If asked about your relationship or seen outside the campus, don't dissemble.
  
4. Now he can dissemble all he likes, but the truth is he chose not to and that was conveniently ignored.
  
5. Yet, no matter how great the man, the true lawyer cannot dissemble.
  
  

Origin:

late Middle English: alteration (suggested by semblance) of obsolete dissimule, via Old F

 

rench from Latin dissimulare 'disguise, conceal'

 
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