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UK
/ɪmpˌɜːsənˈeɪʃən/
]
[ US /ˌɪmpɝsəˈneɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌɪmpɝsəˈneɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect
- pretending to be another person
- imitating the mannerisms of another person
How To Use impersonation In A Sentence
- He also faces charges of harassment, reckless endangerment and criminal impersonation ?for allegedly telling parking lot employees he was a federal agent.
- Yet it must be said that throughout the proceedings his mouth gave a passable impersonation of a garbage chute. Times, Sunday Times
- He has no truck with those who argue that military impersonation is a victimless crime. Lisa Jane Phillips
- Hart belts out the Sinatra standards, but while his vocal impersonation is impressive, his barnet is so distressing it often looks like there's a second microphone on screen.
- Even the gents' foreign impersonations, an obvious peg for buffoonery, arrive on tiptoe. Times, Sunday Times
- But the gerkin referee should be charged with impersonation not Gallen. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
- But all I did was make my impersonation of Bruno more caricatured - put the onus on her to work this out.
- He finished the domestic season in poor shape and, to general mystification, gave only the haziest impersonation of himself all the way through the World Cup finals. Losing a player as gifted as Wayne Rooney smacks of carelessness
- Turns out, someone does a killer Jill Zarin impersonation, too! Watercooler: Watch What Happens' Tina-tacular
- Then there's a sudden switch in the 1970s when the two parts of Meryl Streep's altogether remarkable impersonation come together – Thatcher in pathetically touching old age and Thatcher in her political prime as party leader and world stateswoman. The Iron Lady – review