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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person pretending to be something else |
| Synonyms: | actor, beguiler, bluffer, charlatan, cheat, con artist, deceiver, empiric, fake, faker, four-flusher, fraud, hypocrite, imitator, impersonator, masquerader, mimic, mocker, mountebank, pettifogger, phony, pretender, pseudo, quack, scorner, sham, sharper, shyster, trickster |
| Main Entry: | fraud |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is false, deceitful |
| Synonyms: | bastard, bluffer, charlatan, cheat, counterfeit, crook, deceiver, double-dealer, fake, forger, four-flusher, hoaxer, horse trader, impostor, mechanic, mountebank, phony, play actor, pretender, quack, racketeer, sham*, shark, swindler |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hypocrite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who pretends, is deceitful |
| Synonyms: | Pharisee, actor, attitudinizer, backslider, bigot, bluffer, casuist, charlatan, cheat, con artist, crook, deceiver, decoy, dissembler, dissimulator, fake, faker, four-flusher, fraud, hook*, humbug, impostor, informer, lip server, malingerer, masquerader, mountebank, phony, playactor, poser, pretender, quack, smoothie, sophist, swindler, trickster, two-face, two-timer, wolf in sheep's clothing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | quack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who pretends to be an expert |
| Synonyms: | actor, bum*, bunco artist, charlatan, cheat, con artist, counterfeit, counterfeiter, fake, faker, flimflammer, four-flusher, fraud, hoser, humbug, impostor, mountebank, phony, playactor, pretender, pseudo*, put-on, quacksalver, sham, shammer, shark, sharp*, simulator, slicker, whip* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sham |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hoax, trick |
| Synonyms: | burlesque, cant, caricature, cheat, counterfeit, cover-up, deceit, deception, facade, fake, fakery, false front, farce, feint, flimflam, forgery, fraud, hypocrisy, hypocriticalness, imitation, impostor, imposture, jive, mock, mockery, pharisaism, phoniness, pretend, pretense, pretext, pseudo*, put-on, sell, smoke*, snow job, spoof, travesty, whitewash |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | swindler |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who cheats another |
| Synonyms: | absconder, charlatan, cheat, cheater, chiseler, clip, con artist, confidence artist, counterfeiter, crook, deceiver, defrauder, dodger, double-dealer, falsifier, forger, four-flusher, fraud, gouger, grifter, impostor, mechanic, mountebank, operator, rascal, rook, scammer, scoundrel, shark, sharp, sharper, slicker, thief, trickster |
| Antonyms: | philanthropist |
| Main Entry: | traitor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is disloyal |
| Synonyms: | Benedict Arnold, Judas, apostate, back-stabber, backslider, betrayer, conspirator, deceiver, defector, deserter, double-crosser, fink, hypocrite, impostor, informer, intriguer, miscreant, quisling, rebel, renegade, snake*, sneak*, snitch, snitcher, spy, squealer, stool pigeon, tattletale, traducer, treasonist, turncoat, two-timer, whistle-blower, wolf* |
| Antonyms: | loyalist |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pretender |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | phony |
| Synonyms: | actor, charlatan, deceiver, dissembler, fake, faker, fraud, hypocrite, imitator, impostor, quack, snob |
| Main Entry: | faker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fake |
| Synonyms: | charlatan, coiner, counterfeiter, deceiver, fabricator, forger, fraud, impersonator, impostor, liar, mountebank, phony, pretender, quack, shammer |
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