dissimulator

Definition of dissimulatornext

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissimulator
Noun
  • Before hiring a company, search its name with words like fraud, cheat and complaints.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas Morning News, 30 Jan. 2026
  • For Bautista, a true cheat meal would mean going all in on pizza.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Voters have not punished previous cheaters in this fashion, and definitely not a candidate with Belichick’s resume.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The incident added to the Patriots reputation as cheaters.
    Merlisa Lawrence Corbett, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 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
  • 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
  • Of course, there is also plenty of Trump flattery along with paeans to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his cockamamie make-America-sick-again agenda, as one medical charlatan nods to another.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 10 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
  • The Cult of the Beaver has to fend off pretenders.
    AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Advertisement Iranians deserve better than the Pahlavi pretender.
    Bobby Ghosh, Time, 9 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 bill, if passed, would also require a nuclear facility operator to file an environmental feasibility report to IDEM, according to the Indiana General Assembly website.
    Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Eddie Bauer stores nationwide, including in Southern California, may soon close amid reports that its operator is preparing to file for bankruptcy.
    Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2026
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“Dissimulator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissimulator. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.

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