What (who) is imposture - definition

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Imposture

·noun The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating.

imposture

Cheat, trick, deception, imposition, hoax, fraud, delusion, artifice, ruse, dodge, wile, deceit, stratagem, chouse, crafty device.

imposture

¦ noun an instance of assuming a false identity.

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List of impostors

An impostor (also spelled imposter) is a person who pretends to be somebody else, often through means of disguise. Their objective is usually to try to gain financial or social advantages through social engineering, but also often for purposes of espionage or law enforcement.

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Pronunciation examples for imposture

1. of this general imposture

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2. LSD, military impostures, a doctor

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3. Imposture syndrome, this sense that you

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4. you brought up imposture syndrome, which

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5. we talked about imposture syndrome and the company.

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Examples of use of imposture

1. Feelings of imposture are hardly limited to the girl rackets.

2. There has always been an ‘English imposture‘, the pretence that we are a uniquely decent and restrained people, despite a good deal of evidence to the contrary.

3. Paradoxically, his honesty may have made it possible for Labour to appear enlightened and moderate by comparison, although there were always some Israelis who saw that claim as an imposture.

4. Much more interesting than "When will Blair go?" is "How has he survived so long?" And the answer is that Blair has not only carried out a kind of imposture, he has hugely benefited from grave systemic faults and deformations in our political culture, and in the process crushed both cabinet and parliament.

5. But this cult of sportsmanship played its part in the imposture, very successfully, to the extent that others were taken in (the English for ‘die Schadenfreude ‘is ‘schadenfreude‘, the German for ‘fair play‘ is ‘die Fair–play‘.) That was far from the whole truth even at the time.