dissimulator

noun

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  1. cheat
  2. cheater
  3. knave
  4. charlatan
  5. pretender
  6. mountebank
  7. operator
Noun
  • Democrats propose to reap new revenue by raising tax rates on the wealthiest Americans and corporations, and by going after wealthy tax cheats.
    Daniel de Visé, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, South Beach, fat camps, shakes, liquid diets, low carb, high fiber, zero fat, paleo, diet pills, four grapefruits a day, seven micro meals a day, six days of deprivation followed by one glorious cheat day....
    Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2024
Definition of cheat
Noun
  • Their relatively simple radio attack would allow cheaters or vandals to spoof signals from as far as 30 feet away that trigger a target bike to unexpectedly shift gears or to jam its shifters and lock the bike into the wrong gear.
    Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2024
  • It’s not lost on me that the two cheaters in the group are the ones who get killed.
    Sophie Hanson, StyleCaster, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of cheater
Noun
  • Still, our heroes are not traditional heroes but rather scoundrels and knaves and outcasts, all of whom have complex inner turmoil and compelling character arcs.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Alice begs for the knave’s freedom, putting herself in danger.
    Liesbeth Powers, Dallas News, 27 May 2023
Definition of knave
Noun
  • One exception is Cotton Marcus, the charlatan at the center of The Last Exorcism.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 30 July 2024
  • What’s interesting about it is that in the book, the Dragon Queen is very obviously a con woman and a charlatan right away, and she was based on someone that’s real.
    Max Gao, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024
Definition of charlatan
Noun
  • Other pretender brands like Stellantis’s DS, and Hyundai’s Genesis look to be fighting a losing battle.
    Neil Winton, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Those few Knights of the Round Table who remain are third-tier heroes, clinging to a past that is already washing out to sea, while various pretenders to the throne vye for power.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Definition of pretender
Noun
  • Gould observed that Jerry Falwell had taken up the mountebank’s mission of William Jennings Bryan.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
  • Now, this pallid Color Purple epitomizes the artistic dearth of an era when a cultural mountebank like Winfrey uses race and feminist guile to cheat us of America’s most creative achievements.
    Armond White, National Review, 3 Jan. 2024
Definition of mountebank
Noun
  • The tech giant helmed by Mark Zuckerberg was in the process of hammering out a deal with the operator of a nuclear power plant that would have provided electricity for a new data center.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Sports betting operators have no influence over newsroom coverage.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of operator
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