- hypocrite, dissembler, phony, phoney, pretender - a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he does not hold
--1 is a kind of deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker
--1 has particulars:smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker, charmer; Tartuffe, Tartufe; whited sepulcher, whited sepulchre Derived form: verb dissemble1