dissembler

Noun

dissembler (plural dissemblers)

1. Someone who dissembles.
   • [T]he Earl vvas the vvorſe Philoſopher, being a great Reſenter and a vveak Diſſembler of the leaſt diſgrace: […]c. 1635 (date written), Henry Wotton, “Of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: Some Observations by Way of Parallel in the Time of Their Estates of Favour”, in...
   • [Winston] Churchill, in this telling, was not just a racist but a hypocrite, a dissembler, a narcissist, an opportunist, an imperialist, a drunk, a strategic bungler, a tax dodger, a neglectful father, a credit-hogging author, a terrible judge of character and, most of all, a masterful mythmaker.2021 October 26, Peter Baker, “The Case Against Winston Churchill”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   hypocrite, phony, pretender, bamboozler, bouncer, bullshitter, cheat, cheater, cogger, cony-catcher