Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who unmasks.

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  • noun One who unmasks.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ masker

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Examples

  • He was a man of extreme refinement and sensibility, great intellectual energy and biting wit, easily irritated amour propre, and a taste for polemical writing; he was addicted to analysis, investigation, exposure; he saw himself as an expert "unmasker" of appearances and conventions, and dramatized himself as a devastating discoverer of their social and moral core.

    The Great Amateur Berlin, Isaiah 1968

  • Those in the mainstream media who want to see the president unmasked, who want to see the administration revealed as something dark, do not want to be caught cheering on the unmasker.

    Vocations John 2008

  • He is, we are reminded, "an unmasker of conspiracies and a master of secret investigations."

    Bookmarks 2008

  • Those in the mainstream media who want to see the president unmasked, who want to see the administration revealed as something dark, do not want to be caught cheering on the unmasker.

    But Is It True? 2008

  • However, Carmen Cole is the master unmasker, and she has a plan.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Tia Nevitt 2007

  • However, Carmen Cole is the master unmasker, and she has a plan.

    KARMA GIRL - Oodles-o-Fun! Tia Nevitt 2007

  • Paolo, the great unmasker of the Trentine Council.

    Areopagitica 2007

  • Time is running out for our unmasker, and I have no idea what's going to happen next.

    KARMA GIRL - The Fun Continues Tia Nevitt 2007

  • Paolo, the great unmasker of the Trentine Council.

    Areopagitica 2007

  • Time is running out for our unmasker, and I have no idea what's going to happen next.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Tia Nevitt 2007

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