IMPOSTURE Synonyms

• the quality of being fraudulent

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• a copy that is represented as the original

• criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud

• intentional deception resulting in injury to another person

• a person who makes deceitful pretenses

• something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

• something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

• subject to a playful hoax or joke

• a party of guests wearing costumes and masks

• a costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party

• making a false outward show

• take part in a masquerade

• pretend to be someone or something that you are not

• the act of giving a false appearance

• pretending with intention to deceive

• imaginative intellectual play

• a false or unsupportable quality

• an artful or simulated semblance

• something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

• a person who makes deceitful pretenses

• adopted in order to deceive

• make a pretence of

• make believe with the intent to deceive

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

• deprive of by deceit

• verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

• the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

• a deception for profit to yourself

• not faithful to a spouse or lover

• violating accepted standards or rules

• a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect

• pretending to be another person

• imitating the mannerisms of another person