imposture

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This form of imposture has a pedigree — or a past, anyway.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2021

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

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