imposture

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The art of imposture isn’t only about getting the forged signatures on the letters and bank checks right; it’s about the mood, the tone, the attitude, much as a novelist creates a fictional character.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2020

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

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

Although steering clear of most details of his personal life, he does treat us to tasty morsels of inside dope, as well as his father’s lurid adventures in bankruptcy and imposture.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2016

But such imposture can never maintain its ground long.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith