dissimulator

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He was no inveterate talker, like Sydney Smith; no clever dissimulator, like Mr. Hook.

From The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 by Wharton, Philip

"Yet we were friends for years," declared the dissimulator, folding his hands with a dreary shake of his head.

From Cynthia Wakeham's Money by Green, Anna Katharine

“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

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 Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

Chaucer mingles things mediaeval and things classical as freely as he brackets King David with the philosopher Seneca, or Judas Iscariot with the Greek "dissimulator" Sinon.

From Chaucer by Ward, Adolphus William, Sir