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Another word for impostor

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Noun

  1. One who fakes

      1. A fraudulent healer or incompetent professional, especially a doctor of medicine; an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice medicine.
      2. The sound made by a duck, or any sound like it
      3. Any person who pretends to have knowledge or skill in a particular field; charlatan
      1. A claimant to an abolished or already occupied throne.
      2. One who sets forth a claim, especially a claimant to a throne.
      3. A person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold.
      1. A person who is not what he or she pretends to be; one who deceives, dissembles, is insincere, etc.; fraud
      2. A fraudulent or dishonest person.
      3. A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.
      1. One who sells by deception; a con artist; a charlatan.
      2. (Historical) A person who mounted a bench, or platform, in a public place and sold quack medicines, usually attracting an audience by tricks, stories, etc.
      3. A hawker of quack medicines who attracts customers with stories, jokes, or tricks.
      1. Something intended to deceive; a hoax or fraud.
      2. A person who is not what he or she claims to be; impostor
      3. Something made or done to cheat or deceive; fraud; sham; hoax
      1. Something said or done to deceive; trick; artifice
      2. A person who deceives or who is not what he or she pretends to be; impostor; cheat
      3. (--- Law) Intentional deception to cause a person to give up property or some lawful right
      1. Anything or anyone not genuine; fraud; counterfeit
      2. One that is not authentic or genuine; a sham.
      3. (Sports) A brief feint or aborted change of direction intended to mislead one's opponent or the opposing team.
      1. A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit.
      2. A person who makes elaborate, fraudulent, and often voluble claims to skill or knowledge; a quack or fraud.
    See also:

    true

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Another word for impostor

Noun
  1. See also:

    quack

    hypocrite

    cheat

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  • The chief con spirator, Shuiski, seized the power and was elected tsar by an Assembly composed of his faction, but neither Shuiski, the ambitious boyars, nor the pillaging Cossacks, nor the German mercenaries were satisfied with the change, and soon a new impostor, likewise calling himself Dimitri, son of Tsar Ivan, came forward as the rightful heir.

  • English impostor, was probably the son of a tradesman at Oxford.

  • An impostor, who claimed to be a son of Antiochus Epiphanes, Alexander Balas (reigned 150-145), was installed as king by Ptolemy Philometor and given Ptolemy's daughter Cleopatra to wife, but Alexander proved to be dissolute and incapable, and when Demetrius, the son of Demetrius I., was brought back to Syria by Cretan condottieri, Ptolemy transferred his support and Cleopatra to the rightful heir.

  • She found the impostor useful as a means of injuring the king of England.

  • In 35 he dispersed a number of Samaritans, who had assembled near Mt Gerizim at the bidding of an impostor, in order to see the temple vessels buried there by Moses.

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