dissembler
Example Sentences
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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
Kennan, he writes, for all his strengths, was also a craven dissembler, a “two-faced weasel” who disavowed his own responsibility for the collateral costs of containment once it became unfashionable.
From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2020
It was a steep fall for Robinson, from statewide basketball hero to discredited dissembler.
From Washington Post • Apr. 24, 2019
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
But it is necessary to know how to colour over this nature effectively, and to be a great pretender and dissembler.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
Vocabulary lists containing dissembler
"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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"Paradise Lost" by John Milton, Book III
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