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impostor
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun impostor has 1 sense
OXFORD DICTIONARY
impostor, n. (also imposter)
1 a person who assumes a false character or pretends to be someone else.
2 a swindler.
1 a person who assumes a false character or pretends to be someone else.
2 a swindler.
Derivative
impostorous adj. impostrous adj.
Etymology
F imposteur f. LL impostor (as IMPOST(1))
THESAURUS
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
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