Thesaurus / imposture
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The 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 GHOSTSGEORGE 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 EUGENIAPAUL HENRI THIRY HOLBACHThe hero of The Odyssey was, self-confessedly, no tyro, but was himself “in artifice well framed and in imposture various”.
ARCHAIC ENGLANDHAROLD BAYLEYImagine the indignation of the creditor upon the discovery of the imposture!
ART IN ENGLANDDUTTON COOKI will protect your imposture with the strong arm of the law.
TWO MEN OF SANDY BARBRET HARTEAway unworthy husband, the deed speaks for itself, the imposture is frightful.
AMPHITRYONMOLIEREBaber speaks of them, and tells how he detected and put a stop to the imposture of a pretended miracle at one of them.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 11, SLICE 8VARIOUSBut the imposture was at length exposed by the extremes into which it led many of the red men.
THE INDIAN: ON THE BATTLE-FIELD AND IN THE WIGWAMJOHN FROSTHe was the scourge of imposture, the ponderous hammer which smote the brazen idolatry of his age.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME VJOHN LORDWORDS RELATED TO IMPOSTURE
- affectation
- bad faith
- bigotry
- cant
- casuistry
- deceit
- deception
- dishonesty
- display
- dissembling
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- false profession
- falsity
- fraud
- glibness
- imposture
- insincerity
- irreverence
- lie
- lip service
- mockery
- pharisaicalness
- pharisaism
- phoniness
- pietism
- quackery
- sanctimoniousness
- sanctimony
- speciousness
- two-facedness
- unctuousness
- ambush
- artifice
- blind
- bluff
- casuistry
- cheat
- chicanery
- circumvention
- con
- concealment
- conspiracy
- conundrum
- cover
- deception
- decoy
- delusion
- device
- disguise
- distortion
- dodge
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- equivocation
- evasion
- fabrication
- fake
- falsehood
- feint
- forgery
- fraud
- game
- gimmick
- hoax
- illusion
- imposition
- imposture
- intrigue
- invention
- machination
- maneuver
- perjury
- plot
- ploy
- pretense
- ruse
- snare
- stratagem
- subterfuge
- swindle
- trap
- treachery
- wile
- bait and switch
- cheat
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- con
- deceit
- dishonesty
- dodge
- double cross
- double-dealing
- dupery
- fast shuffle
- flimflam
- fourberie
- fraud
- funny business
- guile
- hoax
- imposture
- pretense
- quackery
- razzle-dazzle
- scam
- sharp practice
- shell game
- shenanigans
- snow job
- sting
- stunt
- swindling
- underhandedness
- affectation
- bad faith
- bigotry
- cant
- casuistry
- deceit
- deception
- dishonesty
- display
- dissembling
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- false profession
- falsity
- fraud
- glibness
- imposture
- insincerity
- irreverence
- lie
- lip service
- mockery
- pharisaicalness
- pharisaism
- phoniness
- pietism
- quackery
- sanctimoniousness
- sanctimony
- speciousness
- tartuffery
- unctuousness
- artifice
- baloney
- bamboozlement
- bill of goods
- bunco
- chicanery
- con
- con game
- cozening
- deceit
- deception
- dirty pool
- dirty trick
- dodge
- double-dealing
- fake
- fast one
- fast shuffle
- fix
- flimflam
- fraud
- gyp
- hanky-panky
- hoax
- hoaxing
- humbug
- hustle
- imposture
- jazz
- jive
- put on
- racket
- ripoff
- run around
- scam
- shady deal
- sham
- shell game
- snow job
- spoof
- sting
- stunt
- swindle
- trickery
- whitewash
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