impostures 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

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