imposture
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The unnamed narrator in “Portrait of an Unknown Lady,” María Gainza’s crepuscular but dreamy novel, looks back over a life led in the shadow of imposture.
From New York Times • Mar. 22, 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
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
What most afflicted him with the sense of nightmare was that he had never clearly understood why the huge imposture was undertaken.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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