Dis-sēm'bler, n.

n. One who dissembles; one who conceals his opinions or dispositions under a false appearance; a hypocrite.

It is the weakest sort of politicians that are the greatest dissemblers. Bacon.

Synonyms—DISSEMBLER, HYPOCRITE. A dissembler conceals what he is. A hypocrite feigns to be what he is not. When Andre passed within the American lines in a citizen's dress, he was a dissembler; Arnold, whom he went to visit, had long been a hypocrite.

Thou liest, dissembler; on thy brow I read distracted horrors figured in thy looks. Ford.

Fair hypocrite, you seek to cheat in vain; Your silence argues you ask time to reign. Dryden.