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It can be used to describe someone who pretends to be someone else in order to deceive people. For example, "The impostor successfully convinced everyone that he was the CEO of the company despite having no qualifications for the role."
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impostor
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Someone who attempts to deceive by using an assumed name or identity.
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He then made two films with the director Robert Mulligan – The Rat Race (1960) and The Great Impostor (1961) – and starred in The Outsider (1961) as Ira Hayes, the Native American hero of the battle of Iwo Jima during the second world war.
But their mullah, who at one stage was flown to Kabul on a NATO plane, was an impostor who pocketed the cash he was given.
The two forged documents and used an impostor to act as the partnership's manager.
Matthew Paris, a monk and chronicler who lived in England in the 13th century, was scathing about the shepherds' leader:This impostor, who could speak French, German and Latin, wandered about everywhere preaching without papal authority or the licence of any prelate, falsely claiming that he had received an order from Blessed Mary, the mother of the Lord, to summon shepherds and herdsmen.
Marubeni has claimed that contracts signed and stamped by a Marubeni director were found to be forgeries and the manager whom Lehman's bankers met in Marubeni's offices was an impostor.
He regards himself as "a clever impostor", a peddler of "feel-good penny dreadfuls" depicting "people caught by the supreme joke of modern life".
The fertile idyll is torn open to reveal a dry, dense tangle of corruption whose destructive tendrils creep into every relationship in the book.In this section Beijing blues Going, gone The way we were Damon Galgut's impostor The long, dark war Children of the revolution Reprints"The Impostor" is a slow, measured, beautifully crafted work.
On Twitter, an impostor posing as Mr Emanuel won 36,000 followers with tweets composed almost entirely of expletives.Nevertheless, the election really did mark the end of an age.
She is 53 and feels an impostor in her own life.
Every yarn she tells is a ripping one, since either the imposture itself is a roller-coaster of adventures, or the impostor himself has wild inventions to promote.
For one thing, the Republican faithful have always worried that the real Mr Romney is the relative liberal of his two races in Massachusetts, and that the present ardent conservative is the impostor.
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