imposture

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Tony Schwartz, who wrote “The Art of the Deal,” which falsely presented Trump as its primary author, told me that he feels some responsibility for facilitating Trump’s imposture.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 27, 2018

The most shocking thing about Flip’s imposture is how easy it seems, how natural he looks and sounds.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2018

Still, excess hardly matters when there’s so much to enjoy and learn from in this encyclopedic anatomy of American imposture and chicanery.

From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2017

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

The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture.

From "1984" by George Orwell