impostor in English

noun
1
a person who pretends to be someone else in order to deceive others, especially for fraudulent gain.
The budding scientists of today will need to prepare themselves to do battle with silliness, impostors , tricksters and fraudsters.
synonyms:impersonatormasqueraderpretenderimitatordeceiverhoaxertricksterfraudsterswindlerfakefraudshamphonyscammer
noun

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1. An impostor.

2. 'John Silver,'he said,'you're a prodigious villain and impostor - a monstrous impostor, sir.

3. He is an impostor.

4. The impostor pleaded not guilty.

5. But... an impostor with a ship.

6. I am an impostor.

7. J is an impostor!

8. I feel like a lousy impostor.

9. The impostor has been shown up.

10. You're not my brother, you impostor!

11. What are you, some kind of impostor?

12. We look on him as an impostor.

13. The impostor traveled on a false passport.

14. The nurse was soon discovered to be an impostor.

15. I felt like such an impostor at school.

16. I don't want to feel like an impostor.

17. One who assumes a false pose ; an impostor.

18. He was an impostor -- dark, frightening and mysterious.

19. Then His Highness outside is an impostor?

20. The rescue of an impostor, the exposure of three spies.

21. But he felt like an idiot, a golf impostor.

22. At heart I felt like a fraud, an impostor.

23. I had to make sure you weren't an impostor.

24. Worse yet, to contact an impostor could be dangerous.

25. She was, in fact, communicating with an impostor —someone impersonating dead Samuel.

26. An impostor could not pretend to have a good search engine.

27. The beasts snarled at this impostor, and backed away, roaring.

28. The impostor was exposed publicly and thus stripped of his borrowed plumes.

29. No impostor could deceive him;someone had put him up to all their tricks.

30. He knew I was no impostor, from the screening at the Valve.

31. Pseudo-Diogenes, an impostor who assumed the identity of another of Romanos' sons, Leo Diogenes.

32. We knew he was an impostor because he spoke with a foreign accent.

33. The interviews were already published when it was discovered that he was an impostor.

34. He succeeded in his profession, but he always secretly considered himself an impostor.

35. 4 The impostor was exposed publicly and thus stripped of his borrowed plumes.

36. Our hypothesis is that this happens because women tend to suffer more from the impostor syndrome.

37. Is that really Bjorn, son of Ragnar, or some impostor who just looks like him?

38. Synonyms for Beguiler include impostor, fake, charlatan, fraud, cheater, swindler, cheat, fraudster, hoaxer and humbug

39. But if female thynnid wasps are active, males will invariably choose one of them, not the impostor.

40. Bitcoins can be "Counterfeited" if an impostor coin is misrepresented to be the real thing

41. He felt like an impostor among all those intelligent people,(sentencedict .com) as if he had no right to be there.

42. This will enable visitors to your site to confirm that they really are doing business with you, not an impostor.

43. Joint mean normalization is an affine transformation that normalizes the mean of the monomodal biometrics scores separately for the genuine and impostor individuals.

44. The description of Among Us App Play online or over local WiFi with 4-10 players as you attempt to prep your spaceship for departure, but beware as one will be an impostor bent on killing everyone! Crewmates can win by completing all tasks or discovering and voting the impostor off the ship.

45. Think about it: Why would an impostor risk “prophesying” something over which he would have absolutely no control—that mighty Babylon would never again be inhabited?

46. Also, it became a brief monarchy when it was temporary abolished 1767–1773, when impostor Little Stephen posed as Russian Emperor and crowned himself Lord of Montenegro.

47. The man registered at a Las Vegas hotel as Dustin Hoffman, and it wasn't until he left without paying his bill, that people realized he was an impostor.

48. Arizona Public Service (Aps) joins Utilities United Against Scams (UUAS) to recognize National Consumer Protection Week, which aims to educate customers on how they can guard against becoming victims of impostor utility scams.

49. What are the Best Adventure Games on Mobile? Impostor Swipe Skate 2 Geometry Jump Save the Girl Chrome Dino Adventures come in many different forms in this cool collection of free online games

50. King Ottokar's Sceptre: in the book, the true professor smokes while the impostor does not; for the episode, this is reversed, and Tintin also learns of the twin Alembicks much earlier in the episode than the book