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.
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.
6 Waking with a start from his revery, the splendid dissimulator said, as in sad reproof, Ye have been over hasty, knights and gentlemen.
7 "No, indeed; you enchanted us all;" replied the dissimulator .
8 "It is not the trout one thinks of when one dines with Mrs. Dale," said the infamous dissimulator .
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