dissimulator

Example Sentences

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“It is not the trout one thinks of when one dines with Mrs. Dale,” said the infamous dissimulator.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

Chaucer mingles things mediaeval and things classical as freely as he brackets King David with the philosopher Seneca, or Judas Iscariot with the Greek "dissimulator" Sinon.

From Chaucer by Ward, Adolphus William, Sir

Mrs. Townly: I can complain about you every way because you are a dissimulator, while I am good, and reasonable.

From Spirit of Contradiction by Morlock, Frank J.

"Yet we were friends for years," declared the dissimulator, folding his hands with a dreary shake of his head.

From Cynthia Wakeham's Money by Green, Anna Katharine

"Possibly!" said the good lady; "it must indeed be a profound dissimulator to deceive me."

From Devereux — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron