dissembler
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His vaguely lined mien suggests premature strain, which feels at odds with a character we’re to take as an expert dissembler, not to say a sociopath.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
Mostly, it solidifies Albert as an heir to that 19th-century American archetype, the confidence man, the smooth-talking dissembler who takes advantage of the credulous to sell faith, politics, whatever.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2019
It was a steep fall for Robinson, from statewide basketball hero to discredited dissembler.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2019
In my own dealings with Assange, he has often overstated his abilities as a hacker; he is a self-confessed dissembler.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 11, 2019
Semyon Borisovitch talked and talked, pressing Will for details of his life, his family, his home, and Will, a practiced dissembler, answered him fully enough.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Vocabulary lists containing dissembler
"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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"Paradise Lost" by John Milton, Book III
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