dissembler

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissembler
Noun
  • Sorting the contenders from pretenders Here’s a quick rundown of where every team stands after the Jets eked out a Game 5 win over the upstart Blues last night in whiteout Winnipeg.
    James Mirtle, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • The speed with which this group develops chemistry and finds that star could determine where the Crimson Tide fall on the spectrum between contender and pretender.
    CJ Moore, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Sardonic in tone—its moralists are hypocrites, the church oppressive, and only the rebels are appealing—the book still plays it safe: slavery is all but absent from this version of Hannibal.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Earlier this year, Trump’s top enforcer on border issues, Tom Homan, suggested the Pope was a hypocrite.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • For them, the Nazarene is not a charlatan, but an upright man, one who has courage, who speaks well and says the right things, like other great prophets in the history of Israel.
    Daniel Burke, NPR, 9 May 2025
  • It was bought for $40,000 in 1937 by medical charlatan Norman Baker.
    Jack Schnedler, Arkansas Online, 5 May 2025
Noun
  • Legitimate candidates face tougher hurdles while impostors glide through.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The success of the impostor scam illuminates another reason criminals are able to bilk Americans today.
    Alana Semuels, TIME, 18 Sep. 2024
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“Dissembler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissembler. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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