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Meanings of
impostor
in English
Russian
имперсонатор
Portuguese
impostor
Catalan
impostor
Spanish
impostor
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A person who makes deceitful pretenses.
fraud
fake
sham
pseudo
pretender
imposter
faker
pseud
shammer
role player
Related terms
occupation
Russian
имперсонатор
A person who acts dishonestly.
cheat
swindler
slicker
deceiver
trickster
cheater
Synonyms
Examples for "
cheat
"
cheat
swindler
slicker
deceiver
trickster
Examples for "
cheat
"
1
This week, the fight against drugs, but sport athletes continue to
cheat
.
2
Biden has often said publicly he worries Trump would try to
cheat
.
3
I return with everybody's least favourite subject: the premature Oscar
cheat
sheet.
4
You'll
cheat
the movement instead of simply doing it the right way.
5
It's that time of year again... nerves,
cheat
sheets and general panic.
1
I am not a
swindler
,
and I guard myself; that is all.
2
He has the stuff in him for a very clever, fashionable
swindler
.
3
The man was an international
swindler
and was wanted by the police.
4
A plan to confuse and outwit the
swindler
occurred to our hero.
5
The
swindler
was not there, nor was he on the adjoining roof.
1
Its new operating system, iOS 6, is
slicker
than slugs on ice.
2
It crackled against his
slicker
;
it beat like hands against his face.
3
The second night is predictably
slicker
,
and even features the missing joke.
4
It's a little
slicker
than the state-saving stuff we've seen so far.
5
Despite never playing together, they looked
slicker
than the Lions at times.
1
No semblance of union should be maintained between the
deceiver
and ourselves.
2
He is a
deceiver
,
and should be driven out of the country.
3
The word signifies a
deceiver
,
which eliminates it from every religious association.-A.
4
I think Aunt Thérèse suspected nothing-MonsieurDubois is such a beautiful
deceiver
.
5
How was he to smile back on the
deceiver
and the insulter?
1
However, although a
trickster
,
Raven also created humanity from wood and clay.
2
Its weighty subject matter is leavened by Rivera's
trickster
-
like
sense of humor.
3
But Mock Duck to the end was a rogue and a
trickster
.
4
Could any
trickster
perform in the dark with such precision and gentleness?
5
I wasn't a warrior like Ash or a brilliant
trickster
like Puck.
1
But in order for that to happen a
cheater
has to 1.
2
I take little
cheater
breaths; my lungs don't want to fight gravity.
3
We first validate our approach using a well-characterized yeast
cheater
-
cooperator
system.
4
A good teacher's impact was nearly as distinctive as a
cheater
's
.
5
A sophisticated
cheater
would be careful to avoid conspicuous blocks of identical answers.
Usage of
impostor
in English
1
The
journalistic
-
impostor
ruse would require higher approval if proposed today, he wrote.
2
He was an
impostor
in the most determined sense of the term.
3
This can be achieved by: Reacting quickly to undo the
impostor
's
sabotages.
4
But I was growing weary of the voice of the old
impostor
.
5
A common man, an
impostor
,
a felon, was never thus waited upon.
6
That was the surest and best proof of his being an
impostor
.
7
He regarded the Californian as an
impostor
and summary action was necessary.
8
He was in great alarm, for he knew Roy was no
impostor
.
9
I am no
impostor
,
my Lord, nor have I deserved opprobrious language.
10
For then Iris would be Clara's cousin-Clara'scousin-andthe other an
impostor
.
11
Now bear in mind, first, that Balaam is no
impostor
or magician.
12
Then it would probably have been supposed that you were an
impostor
.
13
I know that you have intimated that I may be an
impostor
.
14
TRYGAEUS And I also, that you are a glutton and an
impostor
.
15
Then the house declared Fuller a notorious
impostor
,
cheat, and false accuser.
16
No boy of such a noble countenance could possibly be an
impostor
.
Other examples for "impostor"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
impostor
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
mere impostor
old impostor
wretched impostor
denounce the impostor
damned impostor
More collocations
Translations for
impostor
Russian
имперсонатор
самозванец
Portuguese
impostor
impostora
Catalan
impostor
farsant
farsaire
ensibornador
entabanador
engalipador
Spanish
impostor
impostoras
impostora
impostores
embaucador
Impostor
through the time
Impostor
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common