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Definition of Dissimulator
1. Noun. 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.
Generic synonyms: Beguiler, Cheat, Cheater, Deceiver, Slicker, Trickster
Specialized synonyms: Charmer, Smoothie, Smoothy, Sweet Talker, Tartufe, Tartuffe, Whited Sepulcher, Whited Sepulchre
Derivative terms: Dissemble, Phoney, Phony
Definition of Dissimulator
1. n. One who dissimulates; a dissembler.
Definition of Dissimulator
1. Noun. One who dissimulates. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dissimulator
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissimulator
Literary usage of Dissimulator
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Disputed Handwriting and the Determination of Genuine from by William Elijah Hagan (1894)
"... so that the pictorial effect of the dissimulation is in general appearance
totally unlike the usual writing of the dissimulator, for it very often ..."
2. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"G. Eliot, Middle- march, ch. iii. dissimulator, dissembler. dissimulator as I
was to others, I was like a guilty child before the woman I loved. ..."
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