impostor

How To Use impostor In A Sentence

• 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?
• In order to explain why the thought that a dear one has been replaced by an impostor is adopted as a plausible explanation of the abnormal event, these theories also postulate a deficit at the level of hypothesis evaluation, or the presence of exaggerated attributional or data-gathering biases, such as the tendency to ˜jump to conclusion™ on the basis of limited evidence (Garety and Freeman 1999). Delusion
• Polo as an international circle is so tight and so filthy rich that impostors are rare.
• Almost from the moment he died, and it was revealed that he was not an Apache halfbreed but an Englishman, Grey Owl has been depicted largely as a fake or fraud, an impostor.
• If he allowed this conversation to go on much longer she was bound to find out that he was an impostor. THE LONGEST WAY HOME
• Despite selective leakage from the government, it has never been fully explained how both the real Mohamud and a supposed "impostor" were allegedly able to frequent the Canadian High Commission in Nairobi during the long homeward struggle -- with no one noticing the difference. Archive 2009-12-01
• Those atrocity stories had been made up by impostors, many of whom had never even been in Vietnam.
• My uncle was maimed, as I have said; Pippi, like all impostors, was a coward; it was my unrivalled skill with the sword, and readiness to use it, that maintained the reputation of the firm, so to speak, and silenced many a timid gambler who might have hesitated to pay his losings. The Memoires of Barry Lyndon