dissimulate
verb (used with object)
to disguise or conceal under a false appearance; dissemble.
dissimulator
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a word derived from
dissimulate.
Example Sentences
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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 Frank J. Morlock
He was no inveterate talker, like Sydney Smith; no clever dissimulator, like Mr. Hook.
From The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 by Philip Wharton
"Possibly!" said the good lady; "it must indeed be a profound dissimulator to deceive me."
From Devereux — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
Bajee Rao, practised dissimulator as he was, flushed at this unexpected accusation.
From At the Point of the Bayonet A Tale of the Mahratta War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
“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
