dissimulator

Definition of dissimulatornext

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Noun
  • And there’s a cheat code in the sister character.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Tovar has his warts, but Coors Field remains a cheat code that will continue to pad his stats.
    Dalton Del Don, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • If the issues in high school sports are ever going to be fixed, then cheaters need to be exposed.
    Eric Sondheimer Columnist Follow, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Your competition at this point in the Netflix dating show’s run will include 10 seasons’ worth of cheaters and liars, clout chasers and schmoozers and players.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • How does history distinguish knaves from legendary figures?
    W.E. Gutman, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2025
  • Human beings are motivated by virtue (knights) or rigid self-interest (knaves), or are passive victims of their circumstances (pawns).
    Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Carl Sagan's baloney detection kit taught us how to separate good science from the work of charlatans.
    Big Think, Big Think, 10 Feb. 2026
  • First up was Ben Shapiro, who described Tucker Carlson and others as grifters and charlatans, guilty of misleading their audiences with falsehoods and conspiracy theories.
    Jonathan J. Cooper, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The film tells the true and twisted tale of a deceiver of land and folk, who, defying her birth as a woman, comported herself as a man and committed many a wicked deed.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Islamic eschatology warned of a deceiver who distorts perception, blurring reality.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • These two pretenders reflect an insider debate whose subject is not the existence of the Islamic Republic but the best method of its survival.
    Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The Cult of the Beaver has to fend off pretenders.
    AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 13 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Good afternoon and welcome to Con Con, the convention for swindlers, mountebanks, and the people who love them.
    Henry Alford, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Godard might have come across as a species of poseur – a pretentious, quote-spouting mountebank – but his way of seeing was genuinely new.
    Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The City Commission in Leavenworth on Tuesday approved a permit to private prison operator CoreCivic.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Police said the crash knocked both the operator and his passenger off the e-scooter.
    Jose Fabian, CBS News, 11 Mar. 2026
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“Dissimulator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissimulator. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.

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