Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who dissimulates or feigns; a dissembler.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who dissimulates; a dissembler.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
dissimulates .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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
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Examples
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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"
Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880
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I.e. you've been little more than a dissimulator herein, so you might consider taking your own medicine.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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And it is the greatest dissimulator of ignorance the world has ever known.
Archive 2007-11-01 Steve Carper 2007
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And it is the greatest dissimulator of ignorance the world has ever known.
Why I Love the Internet Steve Carper 2007
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Michael B - If you really think that I'm a dissimulator, whatever that is meant to indicate, then maybe you are looking at my comments with your fists figuatively raised in defence of what you have already said.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Now, through Ricker's op-ed piece, the head of the company is effectively unmasked as a disreputable dissimulator with a personal disdain for the truth, the company's customers, and the Florida public at large.
Archive 2005-03-01 Beach Blogger 2005
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Now, through Ricker's op-ed piece, the head of the company is effectively unmasked as a disreputable dissimulator with a personal disdain for the truth, the company's customers, and the Florida public at large.
Citizens' Ministry of Truth Beach Blogger 2005
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The compound had no ground-based dissimulator, external force-field, or any other detectable high-tech defenses.
Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001
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I had no doubt that a fast Haluk starship was waiting in orbit, hidden with a dissimulator field a little less efficient than Makebate's.
Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001
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The region was still boiling with ionic crud from the earlier bombardment, futzing the big ship's scanners, but to be on the safe side I erected Makebate's dissimulator before hailing Captain Schmidt on short-range RE I didn't want him or his crew to get a close look at me.
Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001
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