| NOUN | person | dissembler, hypocrite, dissimulator, phony, phoney, pretender | a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives |
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| Meaning | A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives. | |
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| Synonyms | hypocrite, dissimulator, phony, phoney, pretender | |
| Narrower | Tartuffe, Tartufe | A hypocrite who pretends to religious piety (after the protagonist in a play by Moliere) |
| smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker, charmer | someone with an assured and ingratiating manner | |
| whited sepulcher, whited sepulchre | A person who is inwardly evil but outwardly professes to be virtuous | |
| Broader | deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker | someone who leads you to believe something that is not true |
| Spanish | camandulero, comediante, embustero, falso, fariseo, farsante, hipócrita, impostor, mentiroso, santurrón, tartufo | |
| Catalan | colltort, fariseu, hipòcrita | |
| Verbs | dissemble | make believe with the intent to deceive / deceive |
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