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synonyms for imposture
- artifice
- cheat
- con
- copy
- counterfeit
- deceit
- deception
- fabrication
- fake
- feint
- fiddle
- flimflam
- forgery
- gambit
- hoax
- hocus-pocus
- illusion
- imitation
- impersonation
- imposition
- make believe
- maneuver
- masquerade
- phony
- ploy
- pretense
- pretension
- put on
- quackery
- ruse
- sell
- sham
- sleight
- spoof
- stratagem
- swindle
- wile
See also synonyms for: impostrousimposturous
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How to use imposture in a sentence
Even after the imposture was revealed, however, Taliban leaders remained positive that that their trick could still work.
Afghanistan: The Taliban Plot to Assassinate Karzai | Sami Yousafzai | December 8, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe imposture was discovered, and the poor girl confessed to the wicked trickery which her parents had taught her to practise!
Second Edition of A Discovery Concerning Ghosts | George CruikshankWe do not pretend to justify either his ignorance or his imposture; but we cannot condemn his doctrine of one only God.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10) | Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
By dint of imposture, he outwits them; yet, in consequence of his miracles and illusions, he at length discovers himself.
Letters To Eugenia | Paul Henri Thiry HolbachThe hero of The Odyssey was, self-confessedly, no tyro, but was himself “in artifice well framed and in imposture various”.
Archaic England | Harold BayleyImagine the indignation of the creditor upon the discovery of the imposture!
Art in England | Dutton Cook
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