Choose the Right Synonym for imposture

imposture, fraud, sham, fake, humbug, counterfeit mean a thing made to seem other than it is. imposture applies to any situation in which a spurious object or performance is passed off as genuine. their claim of environmental concern is an imposture fraud usually implies a deliberate perversion of the truth. the diary was exposed as a fraud sham applies to fraudulent imitation of a real thing or action. condemned the election as a sham fake implies an imitation of or substitution for the genuine but does not necessarily imply dishonesty. these jewels are fakes; the real ones are in the vault humbug suggests elaborate pretense usually so flagrant as to be transparent. creating publicity by foisting humbugs on a gullible public counterfeit applies especially to the close imitation of something valuable. 20-dollar bills that were counterfeits

Examples of imposture in a Sentence

He was accused of imposture.

Recent Examples on the Web By the end, this newly bold Portia, empowered by imposture, is more singer than speaker. — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022 This form of imposture has a pedigree — or a past, anyway. — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2021 Fake men can’t live: the cost of the imposture proves too high, and the good fake men—the ones like Vision—will take their own lives or let themselves be killed. — Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2021 When Daniel is released and skips his work assignment at a sawmill to pose as a new priest in a small town, his imposture — as Father Tomasz — verges on blasphemy. — Armond White, National Review, 20 Feb. 2020 And who wants to be the party-pooper who says that some kinds of imposture are less fair than others? — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2018 Thus begins a chain of machinations, impostures, and stratagems, including mare’s sweat, pirates, cross-dressing, and mistaken identity. — John Timpane, Philly.com, 14 Sep. 2017 The actual lady’s maid (wryly mocking Stephanie Goodman) is fully on to Bludgepot’s imposture and watches his scrambling with a sardonic smirk. — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2017 A comic look at art, race, and imposture from award-winner James Ijames. — Philly.com, 28 May 2017 See More

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