imposture

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That view has not changed — but in empty Rome, still reeling from a year’s cultural deprivation, I felt myself oddly moved by this catastrophic imposture, and the hopelessness of Hirst’s Roman holiday.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2021

If you’re really attached to Picabia’s great Dada years, you may try to justify these garish paintings as yet another imposture – as a decades-long ironic commentary on the fiction of originality.

From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2016

Although steering clear of most details of his personal life, he does treat us to tasty morsels of inside dope, as well as his father’s lurid adventures in bankruptcy and imposture.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2016

A more recent imposture, which is still having harmful effects, is the vaccine scare that began in 1998.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 25, 2016

I schooled myself to face forward with greater looks of despond, that we might not be detected in our imposture.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson