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dissembler

[ dih-sem-bler ]

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noun

a person who gives a false or misleading appearance, or who feigns or pretends something; a fraud or phony:
I take everyone seriously until they reveal themselves to be liars, dissemblers, shills, or unrepentant hypocrites.

I have seen many as young brawlers and spendthrifts, but never as young and accomplished a dissembler.

Balboa was something of a dissembler himself on occasion, as you will see.

In everything he was apt, in war as well as in diplomacy, marvellously adroit, and a consummate dissembler.

It was with a pang at his heart that he returned to his old thought of her being possibly a finished coquette and dissembler.

He is the arch-deceiver, the master sophist, the prime dissembler, the prince of hypocrites.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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