dissemblance
Collocations
4ADJ.
coquettish, great, womanly
DISSEMBLANCE + NOUN
alligator
PREP.
out
ADV.
such
Definitions
noun
An act of dissembling.
Such dissemblance, at any rate, is not a temptation at this exhibition.
Dissembling, as a kind of behavior; dissembling, generally.
With Mae West, coquettish dissemblance was out; womanly seductiveness was in.
Dissimilarity, unlikeness.
As this latter animal [the sperm whale] is quite one-third head, he has no very great dissemblance to the alligator in this particular.
Moreover, at any season there is a difference between down grass and mountain grass, between sea grass and valley grass, between moor grass and wood grass. It may be slight, and not in kind but only in shadowy dissemblances of texture and hue.
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3Such dissemblance, at any rate, is not a temptation at this exhibition.
WiktionaryWith Mae West, coquettish dissemblance was out; womanly seductiveness was in.
WiktionaryAs this latter animal [the sperm whale] is quite one-third head, he has no very great dissemblance to the alligator in this particular.
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