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Shamaritan

Someone who suddenly shows faux concern about one problem to try to draw attention away from another.
Nigel says we shouldn't take in any foreign refugees while there are British homeless people to look after, but he never cared about the plight of the homeless before. He's such a bloody Shamaritan!
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