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DISSEMBLER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
Synonyms:
dissembler; dissimulator; hypocrite; phoney; phony; pretender
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("dissembler" is a kind of...):
beguiler; cheat; cheater; deceiver; slicker; trickster (someone who leads you to believe something that is not true)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dissembler"):
charmer; smoothie; smoothy; sweet talker (someone with an assured and ingratiating manner)
Tartufe; Tartuffe (a hypocrite who pretends to religious piety (after the protagonist in a play by Moliere))
whited sepulcher; whited sepulchre (a person who is inwardly evil but outwardly professes to be virtuous)
Derivation:
dissemble (make believe with the intent to deceive)
