One who or that which feigns, in various senses of the verb; †a fashioner, constructor, inventor; the contriver of a fiction (obsolete); a simulator…

A person claiming divine authority for false or heretical pronouncements; a false apostle or teacher; a hypocrite or pretender. Obsolete.

One who, or that which, simulates, or puts on a false appearance (of something).

A simulator, feigner.

A person who disguises or conceals the truth; a misrepresenter of facts or intentions; a dissembler. Cf. colour, v. 6. Obsolete.

One who imitates (a person or an action) with intent to deceive; a pretender, dissembler.

A deceiver, an impostor.

One who imitates another for whom he passes himself off; a pretender, an impostor. Obsolete.

Apparently: an impostor, a pretender (or perhaps: a braggart). In quot. 1581 perhaps: an imposture, a pretence.

A person who makes a profession or assertion, esp. falsely or hypocritically; a person who lays claim to an ability, quality, skill, etc., esp…

One who imposes on others; a deceiver, swindler, cheat; now chiefly, one who assumes a false character, or passes himself off as some one other…

A fictitious personation; a counterfeit, sham; a pretender. (By Spenser used of a magic counterfeit.) Obsolete.

A person aspiring or wishing to be something specified or implied. As a mock surname in literary sources. Cf. sense A. 1a(a). Obsolete.

A person who is not what he or she appears or claims to be; an impostor. Obsolete.

Something as ridiculous as a theatrical farce; a proceeding that is ludicrously futile or insincere; a hollow pretence, a mockery.

A thing (or person) which is pretended to be what it is not.

One who offers imaginary food or illusory benefits. Often attributive.

One who practises simulation.

colloquial of a person: One who is not what he appears to be; an impostor, a humbug; spec. U.S. (see quot. 1895).

Applied to a person. Cf. A. 1d.

A person who engages in deception; a fraud, a charlatan; a trickster; an impostor.

colloquial. Something which is not as good, impressive, valuable, etc., as it is claimed or represented to be; something which does not live up to…

One who shams. One who shams illness, death, etc.

A person who makes believe or pretends; a make-believer. Obsolete. rare.

concrete. One who is a deception, ‘a fraud’.

A person who practises ‘economy’ or judicious selection with regard to the presentation (Theology) of doctrine or (more generally) the truth. Cf. to…

a person who makes believe or pretends.

U.S. An outsider or intruder; a phoney person or thing; an impostor; spec. (now historical) a person who attaches himself or herself to a political…

A fake or counterfeit thing; a false or insincere person.

An insincere, pretentious, or affected person; a hypocrite, a phoney.

transferred. One who poses as a disinterested advocate of another but is actually of the latter's party; a mouthpiece, a stooge.