dissimulator
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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
“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
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 Sir Adolphus William Ward
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
"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 Anna Katharine Green
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