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imposter

noun as in charlatan

noun as in deceiver

Strong matches

noun as in mountebank

noun as in poser

noun as in trickster

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Crewmates win by finishing tasks, or identifying and ejecting all the impostors before you’re outnumbered.

You’re either a crewmate or an impostor, and no one else knows.

Patrick Lucas AustinAvailable on Nintendo SwitchDeception is the name of the game in Among Us, a kind of digital Clue in which you’re tasked with “sussing” out the impostor on your starship.

From Time

Representation in senior positions is also essential for curbing impostor syndrome, which affects women more than men.

From Fortune

Worse still, they called on an expert witness—an imposter—who made a mockery of scientific procedure.

Later, he was captured by Henry, “confessed” that he was an imposter and was executed.

With the real Bert Rodriguez in view, word seems to be spreading quickly that I am an imposter.

“Philip did not seem ever to feel like an imposter in his own life,” she thinks to herself, more than once.

You may have even had a Kobe imposter from Japan before 2010.

He looked upon her as a species of imposter; a guilty woman in the guise of an innocent one.

"Some imposter who wished to come into the town barefoot, perhaps, and so excite our sympathies," said Miss Chant.

He wanted to run, to burst away from the imposter, but the guy was shaking so hard Bart couldn't just leave him standing there.

"Some imposter must have assumed it," suggested the officer.

If old Urique knew you were an imposter, what sort of things would happen to you?

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On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to imposter, such as: con artist, cheat, con, fake, fraud, and mountebank.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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