Synonyms for impostrous
- affected
- assumed
- avowed
- bluffing
- cheating
- concealed
- counterfeit
- covered
- dissimulated
- fake
- falsified
- feigned
- lying
- masked
- mock
- pretend
- professed
- purported
- quack
- sham
- shammed
- simulated
- supposed
- artificial
- bogus
- charlatan
- factitious
- false
- fictitious
- imposturous
- make-believe
- ostensible
- phony
- pseudo
- put-on
- so-called
- spurious
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WORD ORIGIN
"act of willfully deceiving others," 1530s, from Middle French imposture, from Late Latin impostura, from impostus (see impost).
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR IMPOSTROUS
deceitful
adjectivedishonest, insincere- artful
- astucious
- astute
- beguiling
- clandestine
- counterfeit
- crafty
- cunning
- deceiving
- deceptive
- delusive
- delusory
- designing
- disingenuous
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- fallacious
- false
- feline
- foxy
- fraudulent
- furtive
- guileful
- hypocritical
- illusory
- impostrous
- indirect
- insidious
- knavish
- lying
- mendacious
- misleading
- rascal
- roguish
- shifty
- slick
- sly
- sneaky
- stealthy
- subtle
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- underhand
- underhanded
- untrustworthy
- untruthful
- wily
pretended
adjectivealleged; imaginaryRoget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.