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  1. imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role playernoun

    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 for "imposter":

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

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How to use imposter in a sentence?

  1. 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.

  2. Lisa Haisha:

    Once we go through the S.O.U.L. practice, we start to understand the narratives and false beliefs we have in our heads from our childhoods that no longer serve us. We’re then able to see the world through a new framework: We move from Victim to Manifester. We put a leash on our dominant Imposter and let it serve us, instead of being subservient to it.

  3. Lisa Haisha:

    If you have a dominant Joker Imposter, you might desperately want to belong but end up sabotaging the very intimacy you crave.

  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.

  5. 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.


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