dissembler

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who conceals true feelings or intentions by pretending to have different ones

   The ambassador was a practiced dissembler who revealed little of his real plan.

An English agent noun from dissemble + -er. Dissemble was reshaped in Middle English from earlier dissimuler under the influence of semblance and resemble; it ultimately comes from Latin dissimulare, 'to conceal or disguise,' from dissimilis, 'unlike.'

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