The word 'dissembler' is correct and usable in written English.
It means someone who disguises or conceals their true intentions or feelings. You can use 'dissembler' in situations where someone is being deceitful or manipulative in order to gain an advantage. For example: - The politician was a skilled dissembler, promising one thing in public but working towards his own agenda behind closed doors. - She saw through his guise of kindness and realized he was a master dissembler, using his charm to get what he wanted. - The spy was trained to be a dissembler, able to convincingly portray different roles in order to gather valuable information.
Despite his liking for phrases such as "terminological inexactitude", he was not a dissembler.
The remaining four-fifths of "Knowing Too Much" might as well be a different book, perhaps more aptly entitled "You Still Don't Know the Half Of It": an attempt to skewer every apologist, hypocrite, dissembler and charlatan who has ever sought to paint Israel in softer shades than Mr Finkelstein thinks it deserves.His desire to combine the two arguments is perhaps understandable.
He was close and secret, a deep dissembler, lowly of countenance, arrogant of heart, outwardly companionable where he inwardly hated, not hesitating to kiss whom he thought to kill.
With relish, More thus sketches Richard's character: He was close and secret, a deep dissembler, lowly of countenance, arrogant of heart, outwardly companionable where he inwardly hated, not hesitating to kiss whom he thought to kill.
Anyway, being cowardly by nature, as well as a dissembler, I hope we can get through our hour together without mentioning the film – the elephant in the room!
To his fiercest critics, Varoufakis is a dissembler who conjures up conversations, played poker with the Greek economy and crippled 'trust' among its creditors.
Their shattered memories make accurate recollection impossible; their addiction makes them expert dissemblers; their sensibilities allow a capacity for remorseless self-criticism to sit alongside an equally robust talent for self-deception.
When you know that it was said about Scholes by Roy Keane, that tireless scourge of bluffers, liars and dissemblers, it is quite another.
"For it may be said of men in general that they are ungrateful, voluble, dissemblers, anxious to avoid danger and covetous of gain," he writes in "The Prince".
With all the dissemblers in this twisted plot, Mosley's compassionate shamus finds plenty of opportunity to apply his insight.
Our big brains and communication skills make us master dissemblers.
