imposture

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The people who knew Brandon look back mostly with incredulity and amusement at his imposture and extend him the benefit of the doubt when it comes to his motives.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 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

I schooled myself to face forward with greater looks of despond, that we might not be detected in our imposture.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson