Definition for Imposture:

• The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating.

Synonyms for Imposture:

• adj.

  •pretentious (adjective)
  • theatrical,
  • stilted,
  • posing,
  • mock,
  • histrionic,
  • forced,
  • Masquerading,
  • mannered,
  • ostentatious,
  • synthetic,
  • bogus,
  • stagy,
  • unnatural,
  • artificial,
  • deceitful,
  • studied,
  • forged,
  • stiff,
  • pretentious,
  • Impersonating,
  • fraudulent,
  • overdone,
  • la-di-da,
  • affected,
  • false,
  • ersatz,
  • showy.

• n.

  •
  • take in,
  • sleight,
  • honest,
  • means.
  •act (noun)
  • impersonation,
  • imposture.
  •cheat (noun)
  • fast shuffles,
  • bill goods,
  • doubledealing,
  • hankypanky,
  • cozenings,
  • bamboozlements,
  • puton,
  • fast ones,
  • shady deals,
  • hoaxings,
  • buncos.
  •counterfeit (noun)
  • pseudi,
  • boguses,
  • junques,
  • re-production,
  • re productions,
  • re-productions,
  • re production.
  •deceit (noun)
  • hoax.
  •deception (noun)
  • imposition,
  • chicane,
  • hogwash,
  • coverup,
  • chicanes,
  • mare's-nest,
  • Illusions.
  •fake (noun)
  • pre-tenders,
  • pre tender,
  • makebelieve,
  • four flusher,
  • pre-tender,
  • pre tenders,
  • gold bricks,
  • four-flushers,
  • fourflushers,
  • four flushers.
  •feint (noun)
  • pre tensions,
  • dis tractions,
  • dis-tractions,
  • hoodwinkings,
  • mock attacks,
  • dis-traction,
  • dis traction,
  • pre-tensions.
  •forgery (noun)
  • workalikes,
  • imitatings,
  • fakings.
  •fraud (noun)
  • dupings,
  • barratries,
  • duperies,
  • song dance,
  • sharp practices,
  • swindlings,
  • fourberies.
  •fraud, trick (noun)
  • con,
  • make-believe,
  • maneuver,
  • flimflam,
  • fiddle,
  • fabrication,
  • pretension,
  • hocus-pocus,
  • pretense,
  • imitation,
  • illusion,
  • put-on,
  • wile,
  • phony,
  • artifice,
  • copy,
  • gambit,
  • stratagem.
  •hocus-pocus (noun)
  • magic word,
  • Occultism,
  • Mummeries,
  • incantation,
  • magic words,
  • gobbledegook,
  • Hocuspocus,
  • nonsense,
  • Hocus,
  • mummery.
  •hypocrisy (noun)
  • dis play,
  • dis simulation,
  • dis-simulations,
  • false professions,
  • dis-honesty,
  • pharisaicalnesses,
  • dissimulations,
  • dis-play,
  • dissemblings,
  • dis simulations,
  • in sincerities,
  • glibnesses,
  • dis-plays,
  • dis-simulation,
  • dis honesty,
  • in sincerity,
  • dis honesties,
  • unctuousnesses,
  • dis plays,
  • in-sincerities,
  • in-sincerity,
  • bad faiths,
  • dis-honesties.
  •pretension (noun)
  • pose,
  • show,
  • facade,
  • charade,
  • bluff,
  • artificiality,
  • guise,
  • cover,
  • front,
  • disguise,
  • device,
  • stage,
  • ostentation,
  • falseness,
  • affectation,
  • air,
  • claim,
  • mannerism.
  •ruse (noun)
  • curveballs.
  •sham (noun)
  • pre tends,
  • pre tend,
  • fakeries,
  • hypo criticalnesses,
  • hypo-criticalness,
  • pre-tends,
  • hypo criticalness,
  • hypo-criticalnesses,
  • hypocriticalnesses.
  •spoof (noun)
  • flim-flams,
  • flim flams,
  • sendups,
  • take offs,
  • flim flam,
  • send-ups,
  • bons mots,
  • send ups.
  •swindle (noun)
  • frameups,
  • frameup,
  • crooked deals,
  • frame ups.
  •trick (noun)
  • dis-guises,
  • dis-guise,
  • dis guise,
  • dis guises.
  •trickery (noun)
  • razzle-dazzles,
  • razzle dazzles,
  • razzledazzle,
  • razzle dazzle,
  • razzledazzles,
  • under handednesses,
  • bait and switch,
  • bait and switches,
  • under-handedness,
  • under-handednesses,
  • under handedness,
  • bait switches,
  • bait switch,
  • funny businesses.
  •two-facedness (noun)
  • two facedness,
  • twofacedness.
  •wrinkle (noun)
  • kicker.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • ploy,
  • shenanigan.
  •charlatanism
  • quackery.

Antonyms for Imposture:

• n.

  • fraud, trick
    truthfulness, truth, frankness, honor, openness, uprightness, honesty, original, reality.
  • Other antonyms:
    sincerity, candor, ingenuousness, innocence, simplicity, fairness, artlessness, guilelessness.

Imposture Sentence Examples:

• They always believe that if they had been there they could have quickly discovered the imposture.

• The old belief that their testimony was imposture is dead long ago; as, indeed, how could it live?

Hyponym for Imposture:

• n.

  • act
    dissimulation, dissembling, deceit, deception.