(n.) One who dissembles; one who conceals his opinions or dispositions under a false appearance; a hypocrite.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, in HeLa, a human epithelial cell, keratin-containing IFB appear to dissemble as cells enter mitosis (Franke, W. W., E. Schmid, C. Grund, and B. Geiger, 1982, Cell, 30:103-113).
(2) Steps of knowledge as well as social structures institutionalizing its dissembling are described.
(3) The scaremongering, dissembling and misrepresentation of the no campaign will be ramped up as we approach polling day."
(4) As a consequence, he's the go-to guy for a scathing quote on dissembling theologies and their gullible believers.
(5) A paranoid strain is manifest in Stoic utterances generally, especially in the Stoic conception of autarky, where the Sage regards himself as distinctly "other" in the midst of society, and indifferent to its values, except as he dissembles his indifference.
(6) These presentations of the devious ease with which the Vatican dissembles also clearly serve as a metaphor for the Catholic church’s unwillingness to address the scandals of priestly paedophilia.
(8) Why you should read it: Rifkind makes an insightful connection between Trump’s dissembling used car salesmanship and the loserverse of so-called “ pick-up artists ”, which he explored as a journalist a decade ago.
(9) In particular, observers will be watching to see whether the moderators are prepared to ask leading contenders some of the hard questions that have surfaced in recent days about apparent dissembling over their personal histories.
(10) The data suggest that synaptic vesicle membrane is dissembled at the time of transmitter release and then is reassembled at sites along the plasma membrane and internalized in the form of large cisternae, from which new vesicles are formed.
(11) The pretence that Labour is anything else always reeked of the Westminster dissembling and inauthenticity that drives voters away.
(12) None!” Such dissembling raised a wry smile for close observers of Murdoch, and for that matter of Arthur Sulzberger Jr, publisher of the New York Times.
(13) His focus on children’s social and social services might be characterised as calculating, opaque, a liability and dissembling (cold).
(14) Student social workers: 'I'm deeply concerned about the future' Read more Finally, he is dissembling because in his speeches he talks about trusts and other non-profit arrangements being set up as an alternative to local authorities providing children’s social work and child protection services.
(15) The model is related to X-ray diffraction data and optical birefringence, considering dissembly at gelatinization.
(16) It would be near-impossible to record each and every occasion Morrison dissembled, misled or was downright inaccurate.
(17) The contention is that a man – a republican – who was just swept to power on the basis that he means what he says and that he doesn’t tack and dissemble should within just a few days destroy that brand by doing something that everyone will know is insincere and unfamiliar to him.
(18) Budget 2017: Hammond rejects charge he broke Tory manifesto promise Read more First of all, as proved by Hammond’s painful media rounds the morning after the budget, no amount of dissembling can disguise the fact that the NI hike is a brazen breaking of a 2015 Tory manifesto – “We can commit to no increases in VAT, income tax or national insurance” – which blurred out into no end of rhetoric about how the mere idea of pushing up national insurance was the stuff of economic calamity.
(19) His cartoons often feature ugly caricatures of dissembling local politicians.
(20) In dissembling perfected by years of betrayal, Philby had earlier distanced himself from Burgess.
Phoney
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The phrase “currency war” speaks to a seemingly phoney battle between the world’s major trading powers over the price of exports.
(2) Criticism of the European Union has for too long been dominated by a phoney chauvinistic Euroscepticism that ignores the real interests that have driven its development.
(3) We are still in the midst of the uneasy period of phoney war before the cuts actually bite, but we now know what's coming: the deepest and quickest reductions in public spending since the 1920s – which, according to an under-reported quote from David Cameron , will not be reversed, even when our economic circumstances improve (2 August, at an event in Birmingham: "Should we cut things now and go back later and try and restore them later?
(4) Then all of a sudden I see her, she’s now got the big phoney tits and everything.
(5) But surely the problem is not the display of antipathy - it is the phoney feel of it all, as opposing parties score points like public school debaters.
(6) This month the phoney war over Euro membership will get slightly more real.
(7) In his speech at the party's spring conference in Birmingham, Cable accused the Conservatives of engaging in a "phoney war over cuts" that would affect millions of lives.
(8) Sure, activists are interested in how much the candidate can raise, but not how much they can raise here.” Even the politicians’ harshest critics concede there is little chance of being able to inflict meaningful punishment on phoney primary candidates, preferring instead to see any FEC appeal as a symbolic attempt to draw attention to how broken the system is.
(9) Other balderdash included Nick Clegg's phoney claim : "As a proportion of this country's wealth, this government will be spending more in public spending at the end of this parliament after all these cuts, than Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were when they came into power."
(10) Glade discovered that Whittamore's ultimate source was a civilian worker at Wandsworth police station, south London, Paul Marshall, who was logging phoney 999 calls in order to justify accessing the computer records of public figures who were of interest to newspapers.
(11) The pair met in London, but the phoney deal fell through.
(12) In a foreword to what Open Britain calls the “Brexit contract”, the MPs write: “The phoney war is over.
(13) He also attacked the Tories too for waging a "phoney war" about when to make cuts and claimed neither they nor the government had the "courage to come up with the details of the cuts we will need in the years ahead to tackle Britain's deficit".
(14) Caspar Field: With Nintendo now clearly in another market segment, this is a phoney war, and I think both PS4 and Xbox One will sell well.
(15) Sly Stallone is a real athlete; he gets stuck in.” But he’s riled by the number of phoneys he sees around him.
(16) Mr Cameron has tried to spin out the phoney war on Europe for as long as possible, hoping not to provoke his backbenchers unnecessarily and trying to persuade the more reasonable ones to accept his approach.
(17) At first, when she came home, there was the "phoney war".
(18) At some point, maybe we should all sit and have a think about what kind of politicians we actually want – because right now it feels like a choice between the careerist and the phoney clown.
(19) Perhaps young people who did not know the cold war threat of nuclear annihilation are more susceptible to the phoney scaremongering of today.
(20) "In a sense, that will be the end of this phoney war," added Butcher.