imposture

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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

A more recent imposture, which is still having harmful effects, is the vaccine scare that began in 1998.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 25, 2016

The imposture is clumsy and tentative, which Laurel blames on amnesia from the accident.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2014

But such imposture can never maintain its ground long.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith