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dissimulator

noun

Definition of dissimulatornext
as in cozener

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissimulator
  1. cheat
  2. cheater
  3. knave
  4. charlatan
  5. deceiver
  6. pretender
  7. mountebank
  8. counterfeiter
Noun
  • On Saturday, Bristol City fans sang a song that referred to Southampton as cheats in the opening seconds of their Championship game.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Last year’s wasn’t smooth out of the gates but found a way to become a red-zone cheat code as Adams led the league with 14 receiving touchdowns and Stafford won his first MVP.
    — Nate Atkins, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of cheat
Noun
  • These converts, according to their chain of thought, rationalized their cheating in much the same way human cheaters do.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Even president of business operations Gillian Zucker, cheater.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of cheater
Noun
  • The knights who always told the truth and the knaves who always lied.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Try for yourselves, ye witless knaves— Take each to bed your Sally!
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
Definition of knave
Noun
  • You and many others have been taken in by a lowlife charlatan.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Their actions, goals, and promises mimic that of a charlatan.
    — Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of charlatan
Noun
  • The actors are perfectly cast, starting with Marmaï’s likable Antoine, the only player here not being the deceiver.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 12 May 2026
  • 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
Definition of deceiver
Noun
  • The transfer portal can transform a contender into a pretender in a single offseason.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The schedule is forgivable, even by ACC standards, but a rematch on the road against Notre Dame will separate the Canes as contenders or pretenders.
    — Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 28 July 2026
Definition of pretender
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
Definition of mountebank
Noun
  • With sister Coco a gifted painter and her brother, Raymond, a master counterfeiter, the two end up in the middle of a scheme with a down-on-his-luck millionaire.
    — Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2026
Definition of counterfeiter
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