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dissembler en · NOUN

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Etymology

A modification of earlier dissimuler (from Middle English dissimulour) after resemble and semblance; equivalent to dissemble + -er.

Meanings

1. Someone who dissembles.
   • [Winston] Churchill, in this telling, was not just a racist but a hypocrite, a dissembler, a narcissist, an opportunist, an imperialist, a drunk, a strategic bungler, a tax dodger, a neglectful father, a credit-hogging author, a terrible judge of character and, most of all, a masterful mythmaker. 2021 October 26, Peter Baker, “The Case Against Winston Churchill”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
   • [T]he Earl vvas the vvorſe Philoſopher, being a great Reſenter and a vveak Diſſembler of the leaſt diſgrace: […] c. 1635 (date written), Henry Wotton, “Of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: Some Observations by Way of Parallel in the Time of Their Estates of Favour”, in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ. Or, A Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems; […], London: […] Thomas Maxey, for R[ichard] Marriot, G[abriel] Bedel, and T[imothy] Garthwait, published 1651, →OCLC, page 23:

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Synonyms

cony-catcher · Spanish athlete · bullshitter · Scandaroon · fabricator · fabulist · phony · trickster · bouncer · bamboozler · liar · swike · deceiver · shammer · cheater · trucker · deceptor · hypocrite · falser · guiler · rook · cogger · mocker · pretender · grifter · pseudologist · cheat · swindler · losenger · wernard · crammer · treacher · gabber

Translations (10)

bg лицемер (someone who dissembles) · la dissimulātor (someone who dissembles) · de Heuchler (someone who dissembles) · pl obłudnik (someone who dissembles) · de Gleisner (someone who dissembles) · ru притво́рщик (someone who dissembles) · ru лицеме́р (someone who dissembles) · pl obłudnica (someone who dissembles) · ru обма́нщик (someone who dissembles) · it dissimulatore (someone who dissembles)