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imposture
noun as in fraud, trick
Example Sentences
Even after the imposture was revealed, however, Taliban leaders remained positive that that their trick could still work.
The imposture was discovered, and the poor girl confessed to the wicked trickery which her parents had taught her to practise!
We do not pretend to justify either his ignorance or his imposture; but we cannot condemn his doctrine of one only God.
By dint of imposture, he outwits them; yet, in consequence of his miracles and illusions, he at length discovers himself.
The hero of The Odyssey was, self-confessedly, no tyro, but was himself “in artifice well framed and in imposture various”.
Imagine the indignation of the creditor upon the discovery of the imposture!
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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