Crossword clues for dissembler
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 here.
--Pope.
Syn: Dissembler, Hypocrite.
Usage: A person is called a dissembler with reference to his concealment of his real character, and a hypocrite with reference to his assumption of a false character. But hypocrite is the stronger word, being commonly used to characterize a person who is habitually insincere and false, especially one who makes professions of goodness when his aims are selfish and his life corrupt.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, agent noun from dissemble.
Wiktionary
n. someone who dissembles
WordNet
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.