IMPOSTURES Synonyms

• weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous

• weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

• someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

• a deception for profit to yourself

• deprive somebody of something by deceit

• defeat someone through trickery or deceit

• engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud

• be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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