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Meanings of imposter in English

Portuguese
impostor
Catalan
farsant
Spanish
impostor

A person who makes deceitful pretenses.

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Usage of imposter in English
1
Most people are well aware that the internet is an imposter's paradise.
Ebony
2
By playing the imposter and winning your way into an unsuspecting confidence.
The Path of the King
3
And I'd known that the Piper at the Hyatt was an imposter.
Pandemonium
4
At times he confessed to her that he felt like an imposter.
The Guardian
5
They are making a dreadful accusation, saying that I am an imposter.
Helen of troy
6
Just doing that made her feel more like an imposter than ever.
The stand
7
I am unable to prove her an imposter, even to identify her.
The Case and the Girl
8
Nobody could imagine that we would dare to create such an imposter.
The White Princess
9
My dear sir, the man upstairs is an imposter-ifhe's upstairs still!
The Amateur Cracksman
10
That man is an imposter; I shall be the true Faustus!
Sympathy for the devil
11
Would the State Board of Education care that we had hired an imposter?
11/22/63
12
An orphan may rouse the interest of people; an imposter, never.
Vautrin: A Drama in Five Acts
13
The woman must regard Him thereafter as either an imposter or the Messiah.
Jesus the Christ / A Study of the Messiah and His Mission Accord...
14
Allday straightened up and allowed the imposter's hand to fall on the stones.
The Darkening Sea
15
And she felt like an imposter when she said it now.
Mcgillivray's mistress
16
Two hoped they didn't think Tori was some sort of imposter.
The blood that bonds
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