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Letter "D" » dissemble
«Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.»
Author: George Farquhar
(Dramatist, Poet)
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dissemble, dissembled, dissembling, forswear, forswearing, forsworn, malicious, maxim, secures, swear, Tho
«And Joshua said, Alas, O LORD God, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan! / O LORD, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies! / For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name? / And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face? / Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.»
Author: Bible
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accursed, backs, Canaanites, dissemble, dissembled, dissembling, dwelt, environ, sinned, transgressed
«For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.»
«And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.»
Author: Bible
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Barnabas, dissemble, dissembled, dissembling, dissimulation, insomuch, likewise
«They do but flatter with their lips, and dissemble in their double heart.»
«SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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disappointing, dissemble, dissembled, dissembling, dissuade, dissuaded, dissuading, figuratively, Odysseus, prodigies, prodigy, siren, Sirens
«DISSEMBLE, v.i. To put a clean shirt upon the character.Let us dissemble. --Adam»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
dissemble, dissembled, dissembling, shirt
«Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
adds, delude, deludes, deluding, dissemble, dissembled, dissembling, rage, strengthens, thoughtless
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