imposture

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The people who knew Brandon look back mostly with incredulity and amusement at his imposture and extend him the benefit of the doubt when it comes to his motives.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2022

Moreover, according to many people who know him, Mallory has a history of imposture, and of duping people with false stories about disease and death.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 4, 2019

Still, excess hardly matters when there’s so much to enjoy and learn from in this encyclopedic anatomy of American imposture and chicanery.

From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2017

If you’re really attached to Picabia’s great Dada years, you may try to justify these garish paintings as yet another imposture – as a decades-long ironic commentary on the fiction of originality.

From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2016

The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture.

From "1984" by George Orwell