Deceitful, fraudulent.

Characterized by, or of the nature of, fraud; serving the purpose of, or accomplished by means of, fraud.

Full of fraud, fraudulent, treacherous.

Of the nature of an imposture. Obsolete.

Of the nature of an imposture; false.

That cavils, captious; also, fraudulent, sophistical (obsolete).

= impostorous, adj.

Fraudulently palmed off; feigned in order to cheat; pretended. Obsolete.

Full of fraud; cheating, cozening.

= impostrous, adj.

intransitive. To practise imposture. (In quots. as imposturizing adj.)

Of the nature of imposture; deceptive, fraudulent. Now rare.

Falsified, adulterated; impostrous.

Inclined to or marked by circumvention.

= impostrous, adj.

= imposterous, adj.

Of the nature of an imposture.

Of the nature of a charlatan; related to, or of the nature of, charlatanry: charlatanish.

Of the nature of a quack or quackery; quack-like.

Of or pertaining to a charlatan; empirical, quack.

fraudulent.

Of the nature of ‘a sham’, hoax, or fraud.

= sham, n.1 adj.

attributive or adj. Of the nature of or characterized by humbug or imposture; humbugging.

Of or belonging to a charlatan or quack.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of such a ruse; worthless; sham.

Savouring of a charlatan, charlatanical.

In a negative sense: outmoded; hackneyed, ‘corny’; phoney. Now rare.

British slang. Of or relating to the fraudulent practice of the ‘run-out’ (see sense B. 5).

Jazzy, ‘swinging’, lively (see also quot. 1953); also, misleading, phoney, pretentious.