Definitions

imposture

[im-pos-cher] / ɪmˈpɒs tʃər /

NOUN

fraud, trick

Synonyms

STRONG

artifice cheat con copy counterfeit deceit deception fabrication fake feint fiddle flimflam forgery gambit hoax hocus-pocus illusion imitation impersonation imposition make believe maneuver masquerade phony ploy pretense pretension put on quackery ruse sell sham sleight spoof stratagem swindle wile

Antonyms

STRONG

frankness honesty honor openness original reality truth truthfulness uprightness

Example Sentences

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Imposture turns on a "ridiculous mistake" which somehow fooled credulous reviewers; A Quiet Adjustment is "three hundred pages of repression, of a particularly English kind".

From The Guardian • Aug. 26, 2011

And yet who would not, in his heart of hearts, feel piously thankful that Imposture has fallen bankrupt?

From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Carlyle, Thomas

Account of the Detection of the Imposture of the Cock-Lane Ghost, published in the Newspapers and Gentleman's Magazine. acknowl.

From Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman

Imposture on the part of the despoiler implies credulity on the part of the despoiled, and the natural antidote of credulity is truth.

From Sophisms of the Protectionists by White, Horace

Imposture with respect to the Island of Formosa.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

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