2. analysis, examination, scrutiny, scrutinization, inspection, check; inquiry, investigation, probe, study, research, sifting, search, exploration,
dissemble, v. 1. dissimulate, cover up, screen, mask, veil, shroud, conceal, disguise, camouflage.
2. feign, pretend, simulate, affect, sham, fake, playact, put on an act, make a show of, Inf.make like,
dissembler, n.hypocrite, dissimulator, tartuffe, Pecksniff, Inf.used-car salesman; cheat, cheater, fraud, deceiver; knave, scoundrel, mountebank, snake in the grass; imposter, pretender, quack, charlatan, confidence man, SI.con man, wolf in sheep's clothing; trickster, humbug, prestidigitator; liar, perjurer, prevaricator, circumventor. See - deceiver, disseminate, v. spread, circulate, broadcast, publish; promulgate, propagate, teach, distribute, dispense, diffuse, disperse; dissipate, scatter, sow; give out, give to the world, publicize, make public, drag into the open; bandy about, blaze about, hawk, rumor, bruit,
dissemination, n.circulation, broadcasting, publication; promulgation, propagation, distribution; propa-gandism, indoctrination, proselytism; dispersal, emission, scattering,
dissension, n.1. discord, strife, contention, wrangle. See - dispute (defs.
3, 4).
2. dissent, disagreement, variance, conflict of opinion, discordance; nonconformity, noncompliance, protest, protestation; demur, demurral, objection,
dissent, v. 1. disagree, differ, dispute. See - dispute (defs.1, 2).
2. reject, repudiate, disavow, renounce, abjure, apostatize, forswear, discard; forsake, abandon, secede, withdraw, defect.
-n.
3. dispute, dissension. See - dissension (def.
2).
4. dissentience, discordance, noncompliance, disaffection, disaffiliation; sectarianism, schism, recusancy, heterodoxy, apostasy, heresy,
dissenter, n.dissident, nonconformist, objector; protestant, separatist, sectarian, schismatic, apostate, recusant, heretic,
dissentient, adj.unorthodox, dissident, dissenting, iconoclastic; antipathetic, contradictory, adverse, non-compliant, contrary; heterodox, recusant, apostate; schismatic, sectarian, denominational; antagonistic, hostile, irreconcilable,
dissertation, n.treatise, thesis, disquisition, essay, exposition, commentary; discourse, lecture, descant, sermon, homily; address, speech, oration. See - disquisition.
disservice, n.disfavor, unkindness, bad turn, ill turn, dirty trick; abuse, harm, injury, damage, pain, kick in the face; wrong, injustice, grief,
dissever, v. sever, cleave, sunder, rend, rive, split, break apart, cut orhack up orapart, tear orrip apart; separate, detach, dissociate, disconnect, disjoin, disjoint; disunite, disassociate, uncouple, unfasten, disengage, disentangle; divide, Inf.divvy up, cut into pieces, chop up; apportion, section, quarter, halve,
dissidence, n.nonagreement, difference of opinion, disagreement, discordance, rupture, feud, dispute, dissent. See - dissent (def
4). dissident, n.See - dissenter.
dissimilar, adj.unlike, different, disparate. See - dif
ferent (defs.1, 2).
dissimilarity, n.unlikeness, difference, dissimilitude. See - difference (def.
1).
dissimulation, n.feigning, pretending, pretense, hypocrisy, deception, misrepresentation; simulation, affectation, act, show, semblance, sham,
dissipate, v. 1. scatter, disperse, strew, bestrew; dispel, broadcast, sow, disseminate; diffuse, spread abroad, throw to the winds, distribute; sprinkle, spatter.