impostor vs imposter
Definitions
noun
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
Examples
The budding scientists of today will need to prepare themselves to do battle with silliness, impostors, tricksters and fraudsters.
He knew I was no impostor, from the screening at the Valve.
Two envelopes, A and B. Something to be signed and witnessed, just to prove I'm not an impostor; but would an impostor go to all this trouble?
Definitions
noun
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
Examples
That list was obviously compiled by an imposter.
It also means the expert deception of the senses by the tricks of a conjurer, so-called hocus-pocus and fraud, and a magician is either an evil-minded, superstitious mortal, fool enough to believe in charms, or an expert pretender and imposter of the first water, who cheats and deceives the people.
The two imposters tried to appear at their ease.
