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A person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold
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dissembler
Word definitions for dissembler in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. someone who dissembles
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, agent noun from dissemble .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dissembler \Dis*sem"bler\, n. One who dissembles; one who conceals his opinions or dispositions under a false appearance; a hypocrite. It is the weakest sort of politicians that are the greatest dissemblers. --Bacon. Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he does not hold [syn: hypocrite , phony , phoney , pretender ]
Usage examples of dissembler.
Nevertheless, that a male dissembler who by deluging her with untenable fictions charms the female wisely, may acquire powers reaching to the extremity of perdition, is a truth taught to many by unsought and wringing occurrences.
The Spicers are dissemblers and braggarts and the Brotherhood is full of pirates.