Definition of impostor in English:

impostor

(also imposter)

noun ɪmˈpɒstəɪmˈpɑstər

A person who pretends to be someone else in order to deceive others, especially for fraudulent gain.
the charity has warned anyone approached by the impostor to contact police immediately
Example sentencesExamples
- According to the GAO, the majority of passport fraud uncovered in 2004 involved imposters using legitimate identification documents belonging to someone else.
- He turned detective, tracked down the impostor and called the police.
- If you poke them a bit (and maybe buy them a few drinks), many academics will confess to sometimes feeling like impostors perennially threatened with humiliating exposure.
- From the beginning, professions mobilised themselves in their defence against quacks and impostors through associations or institutes.
- Socrates concluded that the ethics experts of his time were impostors, or to be more precise, that they were flatterers who had a knack for telling affluent Athenians just what they wanted to hear.
- Purple Hearts are only given to American soldiers killed or injured in battle, and there have recently been cases of impostors using fake military medals to get ahead in business.
- But even apart from the reactionary content of their politics, the dearth of substantive analysis brands them as charlatans and imposters.
- The e-Vote system must cope with a bewildering array of potential electoral chicanery: impostors, double voters, and enforcers.
- On his part, he had no doubts that the claimant was an impostor and his supporters fools and rogues.
- These rapacious relations managed to poison her ears, arguing the new man was an impostor out to swindle her and them.
- As Kipling put it in his poem: ‘If you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same…’
- Original, well thought-out ideas will be rewarded and impostors won't last.
- Everyone thought I knew what I was doing, but I felt like a fraud, an impostor, the Great Pretender!
- And are self-defined ‘radical feminists’ really as radical as they believe, or has the term been hijacked by impostors with decidedly conservative values?
- Almost from the moment he died, and it was revealed that he was not an Apache halfbreed but an Englishman, Grey Owl has been depicted largely as a fake or fraud, an impostor.
- Those atrocity stories had been made up by impostors, many of whom had never even been in Vietnam.
- It is, then, not only the impostor's willingness to deceive on which their success depends, but the fact that we are on the whole astonishingly trusting and generally do not expect to be lied to.
- Her harshest critics consider her to be ‘one of most accomplished, ingenious, and interesting impostors in history.’
- Two envelopes, A and B. Something to be signed and witnessed, just to prove I'm not an impostor; but would an impostor go to all this trouble?
- The budding scientists of today will need to prepare themselves to do battle with silliness, impostors, tricksters and fraudsters.
Synonyms
impersonator, masquerader, pretender, deceiver, hoaxer
fake, fraud, sham, humbug
charlatan, quack, mountebank
trickster, fraudster, swindler, hoodwinker, bluffer, deluder, duper, cheat, cheater, defrauder, exploiter, rogue, wolf in sheep's clothing
informal phoney, conman, con artist, flimflammer, flimflam man
dated confidence man/woman

Origin

Late 16th century (in early use spelled imposture, and sometimes confused with imposture in meaning): from French imposteur, from late Latin impostor, contraction of impositor, from Latin imponere (see impose).

Rhymes

Costa, coster, defroster, foster, Gloucester, paternoster, roster

Definition of impostor in US English:

impostor

(also imposter)

nounimˈpästərɪmˈpɑstər

A person who pretends to be someone else in order to deceive others, especially for fraudulent gain.
the charity has warned anyone approached by the impostor to contact the police immediately
Example sentencesExamples
- Almost from the moment he died, and it was revealed that he was not an Apache halfbreed but an Englishman, Grey Owl has been depicted largely as a fake or fraud, an impostor.
- He turned detective, tracked down the impostor and called the police.
- If you poke them a bit (and maybe buy them a few drinks), many academics will confess to sometimes feeling like impostors perennially threatened with humiliating exposure.
- These rapacious relations managed to poison her ears, arguing the new man was an impostor out to swindle her and them.
- The e-Vote system must cope with a bewildering array of potential electoral chicanery: impostors, double voters, and enforcers.
- And are self-defined ‘radical feminists’ really as radical as they believe, or has the term been hijacked by impostors with decidedly conservative values?
- From the beginning, professions mobilised themselves in their defence against quacks and impostors through associations or institutes.
- The budding scientists of today will need to prepare themselves to do battle with silliness, impostors, tricksters and fraudsters.
- Everyone thought I knew what I was doing, but I felt like a fraud, an impostor, the Great Pretender!
- Her harshest critics consider her to be ‘one of most accomplished, ingenious, and interesting impostors in history.’
- Purple Hearts are only given to American soldiers killed or injured in battle, and there have recently been cases of impostors using fake military medals to get ahead in business.
- Two envelopes, A and B. Something to be signed and witnessed, just to prove I'm not an impostor; but would an impostor go to all this trouble?
- On his part, he had no doubts that the claimant was an impostor and his supporters fools and rogues.
- But even apart from the reactionary content of their politics, the dearth of substantive analysis brands them as charlatans and imposters.
- Socrates concluded that the ethics experts of his time were impostors, or to be more precise, that they were flatterers who had a knack for telling affluent Athenians just what they wanted to hear.
- Those atrocity stories had been made up by impostors, many of whom had never even been in Vietnam.
- It is, then, not only the impostor's willingness to deceive on which their success depends, but the fact that we are on the whole astonishingly trusting and generally do not expect to be lied to.
- Original, well thought-out ideas will be rewarded and impostors won't last.
- As Kipling put it in his poem: ‘If you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same…’
- According to the GAO, the majority of passport fraud uncovered in 2004 involved imposters using legitimate identification documents belonging to someone else.
Synonyms
impersonator, masquerader, pretender, deceiver, hoaxer

Origin

Late 16th century (in early use spelled imposture, and sometimes confused with imposture in meaning): from French imposteur, from late Latin impostor, contraction of impositor, from Latin imponere (see impose).

单词	impostor
释义	Definition of impostor in English: impostor (also imposter) noun ɪmˈpɒstəɪmˈpɑstər A person who pretends to be someone else in order to deceive others, especially for fraudulent gain. the charity has warned anyone approached by the impostor to contact police immediately Example sentencesExamples According to the GAO, the majority of passport fraud uncovered in 2004 involved imposters using legitimate identification documents belonging to someone else. He turned detective, tracked down the impostor and called the police. If you poke them a bit (and maybe buy them a few drinks), many academics will confess to sometimes feeling like impostors perennially threatened with humiliating exposure. From the beginning, professions mobilised themselves in their defence against quacks and impostors through associations or institutes. Socrates concluded that the ethics experts of his time were impostors, or to be more precise, that they were flatterers who had a knack for telling affluent Athenians just what they wanted to hear. Purple Hearts are only given to American soldiers killed or injured in battle, and there have recently been cases of impostors using fake military medals to get ahead in business. But even apart from the reactionary content of their politics, the dearth of substantive analysis brands them as charlatans and imposters. The e-Vote system must cope with a bewildering array of potential electoral chicanery: impostors, double voters, and enforcers. On his part, he had no doubts that the claimant was an impostor and his supporters fools and rogues. These rapacious relations managed to poison her ears, arguing the new man was an impostor out to swindle her and them. As Kipling put it in his poem: ‘If you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same…’ Original, well thought-out ideas will be rewarded and impostors won't last. Everyone thought I knew what I was doing, but I felt like a fraud, an impostor, the Great Pretender! And are self-defined ‘radical feminists’ really as radical as they believe, or has the term been hijacked by impostors with decidedly conservative values? Almost from the moment he died, and it was revealed that he was not an Apache halfbreed but an Englishman, Grey Owl has been depicted largely as a fake or fraud, an impostor. Those atrocity stories had been made up by impostors, many of whom had never even been in Vietnam. It is, then, not only the impostor's willingness to deceive on which their success depends, but the fact that we are on the whole astonishingly trusting and generally do not expect to be lied to. Her harshest critics consider her to be ‘one of most accomplished, ingenious, and interesting impostors in history.’ Two envelopes, A and B. Something to be signed and witnessed, just to prove I'm not an impostor; but would an impostor go to all this trouble? The budding scientists of today will need to prepare themselves to do battle with silliness, impostors, tricksters and fraudsters. Synonyms impersonator, masquerader, pretender, deceiver, hoaxer fake, fraud, sham, humbug charlatan, quack, mountebank trickster, fraudster, swindler, hoodwinker, bluffer, deluder, duper, cheat, cheater, defrauder, exploiter, rogue, wolf in sheep's clothing informal phoney, conman, con artist, flimflammer, flimflam man dated confidence man/woman Origin Late 16th century (in early use spelled imposture, and sometimes confused with imposture in meaning): from French imposteur, from late Latin impostor, contraction of impositor, from Latin imponere (see impose). Rhymes Costa, coster, defroster, foster, Gloucester, paternoster, roster Definition of impostor in US English: impostor (also imposter) nounimˈpästərɪmˈpɑstər A person who pretends to be someone else in order to deceive others, especially for fraudulent gain. the charity has warned anyone approached by the impostor to contact the police immediately Example sentencesExamples Almost from the moment he died, and it was revealed that he was not an Apache halfbreed but an Englishman, Grey Owl has been depicted largely as a fake or fraud, an impostor. He turned detective, tracked down the impostor and called the police. If you poke them a bit (and maybe buy them a few drinks), many academics will confess to sometimes feeling like impostors perennially threatened with humiliating exposure. These rapacious relations managed to poison her ears, arguing the new man was an impostor out to swindle her and them. The e-Vote system must cope with a bewildering array of potential electoral chicanery: impostors, double voters, and enforcers. And are self-defined ‘radical feminists’ really as radical as they believe, or has the term been hijacked by impostors with decidedly conservative values? From the beginning, professions mobilised themselves in their defence against quacks and impostors through associations or institutes. The budding scientists of today will need to prepare themselves to do battle with silliness, impostors, tricksters and fraudsters. Everyone thought I knew what I was doing, but I felt like a fraud, an impostor, the Great Pretender! Her harshest critics consider her to be ‘one of most accomplished, ingenious, and interesting impostors in history.’ Purple Hearts are only given to American soldiers killed or injured in battle, and there have recently been cases of impostors using fake military medals to get ahead in business. Two envelopes, A and B. Something to be signed and witnessed, just to prove I'm not an impostor; but would an impostor go to all this trouble? On his part, he had no doubts that the claimant was an impostor and his supporters fools and rogues. But even apart from the reactionary content of their politics, the dearth of substantive analysis brands them as charlatans and imposters. Socrates concluded that the ethics experts of his time were impostors, or to be more precise, that they were flatterers who had a knack for telling affluent Athenians just what they wanted to hear. Those atrocity stories had been made up by impostors, many of whom had never even been in Vietnam. It is, then, not only the impostor's willingness to deceive on which their success depends, but the fact that we are on the whole astonishingly trusting and generally do not expect to be lied to. Original, well thought-out ideas will be rewarded and impostors won't last. As Kipling put it in his poem: ‘If you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same…’ According to the GAO, the majority of passport fraud uncovered in 2004 involved imposters using legitimate identification documents belonging to someone else. Synonyms impersonator, masquerader, pretender, deceiver, hoaxer Origin Late 16th century (in early use spelled imposture, and sometimes confused with imposture in meaning): from French imposteur, from late Latin impostor, contraction of impositor, from Latin imponere (see impose).
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