imposture in English

noun

1

an instance of pretending to be someone else in order to deceive others.

In my previous impostures in the English department, I had picked up some of the rudiments of Romanticism, but one idea that intrigued me was Edmund Burke's theory of the sublime.

synonyms: misrepresentation, pretense, deceit, deception, trickery, artifice, subterfuge, feint, hoax, trick, ruse, dodge, con, scam, flimflam

noun

• misrepresentation, pretense, deceit, deception, trickery, artifice, subterfuge, feint, hoax, trick, ruse, dodge, con, scam, flimflam
• impersonation

Use "imposture" in a sentence

1. Soiled by her imposture she remains silent.

2. This last imposture would be worse than the first.

3. Imposture is not allowed, violates will be punished as the regulation stipulates.

4. What are an imposition, all a confounded imposture? - and I can prove it.

5. Synonyms for Charlatanism include charlatanry, quackery, flimflam, deceit, fraud, imposture, deception, dishonesty, deceitfulness and pretense

6. The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture.

7. What tithes and tricks but an imposition, all a confounded imposture ? - and I can prove it. Sentencedict.com

8. What most afflicted him with the sense of nightmare was that he had never clearly understood why the huge imposture was undertaken.

9. Ou il est monstre, que les autheurs anonymes de ces libelles diffamatoires sont Attaints de crimes d'Heresie, leze Majeste Perfidie, Sacrilege, et tres-enorme Imposture.

10. Because of the particularity of intellectual property, the intellectual property tax has three feathers: sustainable development, difficult to imposture, extensive internationalism.

11. The test report is invalid when anything of the following happens –illegal transfer, reproduction, embezzlement, imposture, modification or tampering in any media form.

12. This new resource discovery algorithm can effectively restrain the imposture and pseudo service of P2P network, improve the reliability and security and decrease network load.

13. And what kind of apology are you going to make to me and to this insulted house for the imposture which you have attempted to play here?

14. And to go further in my formulae, I would say that because of this fact in the kingdom of the man there is always some imposture present.

15. Where imposture, ignorance, and brutal Cupidity, are the stock in trade of a small body of men, and one is described by these characteristics, all his fellows will recognise something belonging to themselves, and each will have a misgiving that the portrait is his own.