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imposture::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | impersonation |
| Type of | deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation |
Examples of imposture
imposture
He was a reactionary only in reacting against intellectual dishonesty and imposture.
From the guardian.co.uk
Stanley rarely pursued his imposture for personal gain or money.
From the time.com
Nine months later it has ended with allegations of an immense imposture on a world-wide scale.
From the infowars.com
Diogenes, who was quite the cynic philosopher, would have seen through this imposture in seconds.
From the guardian.co.uk
Twain's message, it seems, is that racial imposture simply can't ultimately be tolerated in America.
From the npr.org
Her imposture was not detected in her lifetime.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The Greeks in Amsterdam, rather than denounce him as an imposture, acknowledged him as founding the first Greek Church there.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Taking the liberty of masking your religion is, de facto, a way of challenging this imposture and discarding the threat of being called an infidel.
From the thelede.blogs.nytimes.com
Between them the pair create about as much hilarity and goodwill as the Wayans Brothers did in their equally terrible farce of imposture White Chicks.
From the independent.co.uk
- Pretending to be another person
- An impostor or imposter is a person who pretends to be somebody else, often to try to gain financial or social advantages through social engineering, but just as often for purposes of espionage or law enforcement.
- The Imposture is a Caroline era stage play, a tragicomedy written by James Shirley and first published in 1653. Shirley himself considered The Imposture the best of his romantic comedies.
- The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating
