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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
impostor \impos"tor\, n. l. impostor a deceiver, fr. imponere
to impose upon, deceive. see impone.
one who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character
or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a
pretender. "the fraudulent impostor foul." --milton.
syn: deceiver; cheat; rogue. see deceiver.
1913 webster
see also:
impone deceiver
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
impostor
n : a person who makes deceitful pretenses syn: imposter, pretender,
fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud,
role player
see also:
imposter pretender fake faker fraud sham
shammer pseudo pseud role player
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
85 moby thesaurus words for "impostor":
ape, beguiler, blagueur, bluff, bluffer, charlatan, cheat,
clinquant, con man, confidence man, conformist, copier, copycat,
copyist, counterfeit, counterfeiter, cuckoo, deceiver, dissembler,
dissimulator, dummy, echo, echoer, echoist, fake, fakement, faker,
flimflam man, forger, forgery, fourflusher, frame-up, fraud, hoax,
humbug, hypocrite, imitation, imitator, impersonator, imposter,
junk, malingerer, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, misleader, mock,
mocker, mockingbird, monkey, mountebank, parrot, paste,
pettifogger, phony, pinchbeck, plagiarist, poll-parrot, polly,
polly-parrot, poser, poseur, pretender, put-on, put-up job, quack,
quacksalver, quackster, ringer, rip-off, saltimbanco, sham,
shammer, shark, sheep, shoddy, shyster, simulacrum, simulator,
swindle, swindler, tinsel, trickster, whited sepulcher
- [4] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
impostor n. a rival aspirant to public honors.
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