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dissembler

[dih-sem-bler] / dɪˈsɛm blər /




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His vaguely lined mien suggests premature strain, which feels at odds with a character we’re to take as an expert dissembler, not to say a sociopath.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2024

But almost as soon as the news broke that our favorite congressional dissembler apparently had a former life as “Kitara Ravache,” he felt it necessary to step forward and deny the whole thing.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 22, 2023

In my own dealings with Assange, he has often overstated his abilities as a hacker; he is a self-confessed dissembler.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 11, 2019

Today, it may seem that we'll remember Spicer as a shameless dissembler.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2017

Semyon Borisovitch talked and talked, pressing Will for details of his life, his family, his home, and Will, a practiced dissembler, answered him fully enough.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman


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