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Meanings of dissimulator in English

Portuguese
hipócrita
Catalan
colltort
Spanish
fariseo

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.

        hipócrita
        Usage of dissimulator in English
        1
        Bajee Rao, practised dissimulator as he was, flushed at this unexpected accusation.
        At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War
        2
        He is a great dissimulator, a spreader abroad of clever fantasies and lies.
        The Book of Life
        3
        This is, perhaps unconsciously, partly Ned's doing; at fifteen he wasalready a master dissimulator.
        Hero: the life and legend of lawrence of arabia
        4
        Angelica: (sighing) What violence is necessary to turn me into a dissimulator with all the world.
        The Spirit of Contradiction
        5
        Tostig, with all his vices, was a poor dissimulator, and his sullen spirit betrayed itself when he took leave of his host.
        Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 11
        6
        Waking with a start from his revery, the splendid dissimulator said, as in sad reproof, Ye have been over hasty, knights and gentlemen.
        The Last of the Barons — Volume 12
        7
        "No, indeed; you enchanted us all;" replied the dissimulator.
        The Parisians — Volume 02
        8
        "It is not the trout one thinks of when one dines with Mrs. Dale," said the infamous dissimulator.
        International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1,...
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        Translations for dissimulator
        Spanish
        fariseo
        Dissimulator through the time