pretender

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noun phony

More words related to pretender

chameleon

noun. inconstant person

charlatan

noun. swindler

counterfeiter

noun. forger

dabbler

noun. amateur

Word Origin & History

1590s, "one who intends;" 1620s as "one who puts forth a claim;" agent noun from pretend (v.). Specifically of a claimant to the English throne from 1690s.

Example Sentences for pretender

He has an air, it is true, but his air is not a breeze, like the air of a pretender to fashion.

The moment might be propitious to the pretender, however false his claim.

And yet you see after all I am like to turn out only a pretender.

A particular account of the "Pretender's Magazine" is extant.

The General asked him "if he had been along with the Pretender?"

Is it to the emblem of the House of York, or the badge of the Pretender?

Some say the Pretender was in the battle, and wounded; but others say he was not.

(p. 300) He will not acknowledge him to have any right to the title, and calls him a pretender.

The brothers went to Lorraine in May 1436, to see the pretender.

She said that was not known; it had been supposed a likeness of the Pretender, when young.

pretender

Synonyms for pretender

More words related to pretender

chameleon

charlatan

cheat

counterfeiter

dabbler

fake

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charlatan

cheat

counterfeiter

dabbler

fake

Synonyms for pretender

chameleon