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imposture n. 欺诈,冒牌 欺诈,冒牌 imposture n 1: pretending to be another person [ synonym: { imposture}, { impersonation}] Imposture \ Im* pos" ture\, n. [ L. impostura: cf. F. imposture. See { Impone}.] The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating. [ 1913 Webster] From new legends And fill the world with follies and impostures. -- Johnson. Syn: Cheat; fraud; trick; imposition; delusion. [ 1913 Webster] 116 Moby Thesaurus words for " imposture": acting, affectation, appearance, artifice, attitudinizing, ballot- box stuffing, bluff, bluffing, bunco, cardsharping, charlatanism, charlatanry, cheat, cheating, color, coloring, copy, copying, counterfeit, counterfeiting, cozenage, deceit, deception, delusion, diddle, diddling, disguise, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, dodge, emulation, fabrication, facade, face, fake, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show, falsity, feigning, feint, fishy transaction, flam, flimflam, following, forgery, four- flushing, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, front, gambit, gerrymandering, gilt, gloss, graft, grift, gyp, gyp joint, hit- off, hoax, humbug, humbuggery, illicit business, imitation, impersonation, imposition, impression, make- believe, maneuver, masquerade, meretriciousness, mimesis, mirroring, onomatopoeia, ostentation, outward show, parody, phony, plagiarism, plagiary, playacting, ploy, pose, posing, posture, pretense, pretension, pretext, put- on, quackery, quackishness, quackism, racket, repetition, representation, ruse, scam, seeming, semblance, sham, show, simulacrum, simulation, sleight, speciousness, spoof, swindle, takeoff, varnish, wile, window dressing
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