Dissembler

Définitions de « dissembler »

Dissembler - Verbe

• (adj.) Qui ne ressemble pas ou ne se conforme pas aux autres; distinct ou divergent dans la manière d'être.

  De sorte que, chaque fois que l'on converse avec un russe, c'est comme si l'on conversait avec tous. Non point que chacun obéisse précisément à un mot d'ordre; mais tout est arrangé de manière qu'il ne puisse pas dissembler.

Étymologie de « dissembler »

Évolution historique de l’usage du mot « dissembler » depuis 1800

Synonymes de « dissembler »

• dissimuler
• disséminer
• dissemblance
• dissemblable
• désassembler

Citations contenant le mot « dissembler »

• Johnson was a great dissembler and certainly an effective networker, and could present himself as all things to all men. Over time, he managed to wheedle his way into Roosevelt’s inner circle and was seen by the latter as a principled progressive. But to Johnson’s business backers he was the man who could win them lucrative contracts and seen as a man of the conservative right. He was not averse to concluding shady deals with his backers and small-time gangsters, even to the extent of actually buying votes with cash and employing dirty tricks to defeat his opponents.

• Anavex Life Sciences is in a tough spot. The serial dissembler of clinical trial results might be forced, finally, to tell the truth when it reads out its next study in Rett syndrome.

• The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is largely an opportunity for the powerful to mingle with the even more powerful. For the most part, I’ve spent my time here listening to government leaders — Iran’s foreign minister struck me as an exceptionally talented dissembler — and schmoozing with business leaders, think tankers and officials at Davos’s famous private dinners and after-parties.

• So who are the ruling class? “The privately educated Englishman is the greatest dissembler on earth,” le Carré’s most famous character, George Smiley, says in The Secret Pilgrim. “Nobody will charm you so glibly, disguise his feelings from you better, cover his tracks more skilfully or find it harder to confess to you that he’s been a damn fool.” Who today can look at the former premier David Cameron, or current Prime Minister Boris Johnson—both the products of Eton and Oxford—and not smile reading these lines?

• "The privately educated Englishman is the greatest dissembler on earth… Was, is now and ever shall be for as long as our disgraceful school system remains intact. Nobody will charm you so glibly, disguise his feelings from you better, cover his tracks more skilfully or find it harder to confess to you that he's been a damn fool. Nobody acts braver when he's frightened stiff, or happier when he's miserable; nobody can flatter you better when he hates you than your extrovert Englishman or woman..."

Traductions du mot « dissembler »

Sources et ressources complémentaires

• Définitions du Wiktionnaire
• Définitions du Littré (1872-1877)
• Définitions du TLFi
• Synonymes de dissembler sur lebonsynonyme.fr