Synonyms for imposter

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1. imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player(noun)

   a person who makes deceitful pretenses

   Synonyms:
   histrion, fraud, pseudo, fake, dissimulator, faker, player, pretender, fraudulence, juke, role player, hoax, dissembler, put-on, humbug, shammer, actor, pseud, hypocrite, phoney, sham, phony, postiche, impostor, dupery, malingerer, thespian, skulker

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1. List of paraphrases:

   impostor, faker, pretender, fake, phoney, fraud, fraudster

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How to use imposter in a sentence?

1. Vikrant Parsai:

   God really doesn’t reside in any temple, he is just an imposter who stays outside it for some time and meanwhile we fail to recognise and miss him.

2. Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia:

   This is to state that I am convinced that Mrs Anderson or Tchiakovsky is an imposter. I believe in the statement my sister the Grand Duchess Olga, made in 1925 that this woman was not Anastasia.

3. Joseph Brodsky:

   The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

4. Nancy Pelosi:

   I think part of it is his own insecurity as an imposter. I think he knows full well that hes in that office way over his head.

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