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Meanings of dissembler in English
Synonyms
Examples for "hypocrite"
Examples for "hypocrite"
1
And for those that attend the hypocrite, in general they are these.
2
But he made himself a hypocrite; and that he found much easier.
3
What a shameless hypocrite! I had to admit, they made a point.
4
I also played the hypocrite, and frequented the conferences of Saint Lazarus.
5
The lady on this occasion acted finely the part of a hypocrite.
1
Prussia demanded the expulsion of the pretender; to which Austria said no.
2
About the time of the Paris pretender in the kingdom of Naples.
3
The ideal of China is sincerity but an actor is a pretender.
4
The pretender braced himself for the scrutiny the eyes made of him.
5
You show more determination than I had thought possible for a pretender.
1
You know what we do to people give us a phony lead?
2
That's a pretty sweeping statement, and I know how phony it sounds.
3
Then they discovered something really big: phony anti-virus programs known as scareware.
4
However, like a lot of this six-episode series, the prizes are phony.
5
I keep thinking I've got some kind of phony vibration period here.
1
He thought there was something phoney in the feel of the notes.
2
The phoney war is over; now the battle for Eircom truly begins.
3
The annual phoney war that kicks off awards season has properly begun.
4
Websites are now used and operated anonymously or under a phoney alias.
5
But the enthusiasm was short-lived and perceived as phoney at the time.
1
Bajee Rao, practised dissimulator as he was, flushed at this unexpected accusation.
2
He is a great dissimulator, a spreader abroad of clever fantasies and lies.
3
This is, perhaps unconsciously, partly Ned's doing; at fifteen he wasalready a master dissimulator.
4
Angelica: (sighing) What violence is necessary to turn me into a dissimulator with all the world.
5
Tostig, with all his vices, was a poor dissimulator, and his sullen spirit betrayed itself when he took leave of his host.
Usage of dissembler in English
1
I was a close and resolute dissembler-inthis one case at least.
2
Clever dissembler that he was, he could not prevent an involuntary start.
3
He was then in Clarendon's eyes preeminently a dissembler-'thegreatest dissembler living'.
4
Perhaps Stoppard's comparisons with that great dissembler Wilde are more apt than ever.
5
You have not been weak; you have been abused by a devilish dissembler.
6
Tell the vile dissembler, I mean the duke, I await him.
7
It is as dead as it seems, and will prove itself no dissembler.
8
Amongst her other feminine qualities she had that of being a perfect dissembler.
9
Well, thought I, I must put on the dissembler a little, I see.
10
I should say not, unless he be an extremely accomplished dissembler.
11
Balboa was something of a dissembler himself on occasion, as you will see.
12
Either Franz was mistaken, or Haddan was a most skilful dissembler.
13
Thou hast foresworn thyself, dissembler-orelse my charms have prematurely withered.
14
Aye, he was a good dissembler, was Cockney-butwe matched him.
15
What if this consummate dissembler should cheat both the rival kings?
16
Sycophanta is such a dissembler, traitor, and backbiter that would earn a grey coat.
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United Kingdom
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