How To Use Impostor In A Sentence
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The budding scientists of today will need to prepare themselves to do battle with silliness, impostors, tricksters and fraudsters.
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He knew I was no impostor, from the screening at the Valve.
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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?
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In order to explain why the thought that a dear one has been replaced by an impostor is adopted as a plausible explanation of the abnormal event, these theories also postulate a deficit at the level of hypothesis evaluation, or the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
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Polo as an international circle is so tight and so filthy rich that impostors are rare.
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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.
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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
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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
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Those atrocity stories had been made up by impostors, many of whom had never even been in Vietnam.
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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
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I do it in love, and charity, and compassion to your soul: I believe it to be a public duty to warn people against cheats, quacks, and impostors.
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Leigh or else some base impostor assuming his voice and guise, "it _is_ the young cockbird, by all that's living -- ain't I glad!
On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story
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The fact that she is an impostor makes an incredibly ironic point about hypocrisy.
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American Union bordering on Kentucky, an impostor who declared that he was the Son of God, the Saviour of mankind, and that he had reappeared on earth to recall the impious, the unbelieving, and sinners to their duty.
The Golden Bough
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*Anti-papism : the view that the Pope is either an impostor or a medieval despot.
The Last Acceptable Prejudice
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‘He was a brigand, impostor and forger,’ he says.
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It is grossly unfair to true heroes who gave their lives in service to our country and legitimately earned valorous awards only to have impostors go down as heroes when they were never there.
Heroes or Villains?
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The douma, not fancying the idea that an impostor should rule over them, invited the hetman of a Polish army to Moscow, to discuss the other candidate.
The Story of Russia
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In Leicester, though, they treat those twin impostors, panic and the ticking clock, with disdain.
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David or Zerubbabel (compare Hag 2: 2; Zec 4: 7-10) be primarily meant, there is here typically represented God's more wonderful doings in exalting Christ, crucified as an impostor, to be the Prince and Saviour and Head of His Church.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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I'm a fake, a phony, a fraud, an impostor, and a charlatan of the worse degree.
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The e-Vote system must cope with a bewildering array of potential electoral chicanery: impostors, double voters, and enforcers.
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Nevertheless, whether it likes it or not, the University of Glasgow is still my alma mater and, truant and impostor though I may have been, I am saddened at its proposals to defenestrate its excellent modern languages department.
Who will awaken the talents of our poorest kids? | Kevin McKenna
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No god mounts guard over the head-water of the Thames; and the only Englishman who boldly claims a divine descent is (I understand) an impostor who runs an Agapemone.
VIII. On the Lineage of English Literature (I)
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Except that, in today's Britain, the only muffins available are transatlantic impostors.
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And unlike our large impostor taco chains, which impose one mediocre style nationwide, ‘real’ (that is, authentic Mexican) taquerias are spreading variety and quality throughout the land.
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Rarely does an uprated engine or performance-tuned suspension figure in this sort of equation, but a combination of clever marketing and price adjustments keeps these impostors ever-popular.
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'John Silver,'he said,'you're a prodigious villain and impostor - a monstrous impostor, sir.
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But the wren screamed loudest of all, and said that the goldfinch was a painted impostor, and had not got half so much gold as the yellow-hammer.
Wood Magic A Fable
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An impostor could not pretend to have a good search engine.
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About the year 1830 there appeared, in one of the States of the American Union bordering on Kentucky, an impostor who declared that he was the Son of God, the Saviour of mankind, and that he had reappeared on earth to recall the impious, the unbelieving, and sinners to their duty.
Chapter 7. Incarnate Human Gods
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Afterwards, he appears to have degenerated into an impostor, but this is said to have been a finesse to hide his true character as an alchemistic adept.
Bygone Beliefs
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In spite of this exposure of the impostor, the word was allowed to stand, with a woodcut of an abacot, in an important dictionary published subsequently, although Dr. Murray's remarks were quoted.
Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error"
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An unwavering sense of purpose, or destiny, motivates many impostors, and even exposure rarely lessens this desire.
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Many of her class set out by being impostors and end by becoming enthusiasts, or hold a kind of darkling conduct between both lines, unconscious almost when they are cheating themselves or when imposing on others.
Guy Mannering
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Luther told the people that these Indulgences were worthless bits of paper, before God, and that Tetzel and his masters were a crew of impostors in selling them.
A Child's History of England
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An unwavering sense of purpose, or destiny, motivates many impostors, and even exposure rarely lessens this desire.
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Speaking about aches in southern regions of the anatomy, what about Becks's female counterpart, the tennis impostor Anna Kournikova?
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His own mouth condemns him," exclaimed the impostor; "he confesses that his intention was to seduce from the way of salvation our well-beloved sister in God; away with him to the dungeon; to-morrow he dies the death; we are manifestly called upon to make an example, tremendous and appalling, to scare the children of sin from our asylum of the saved.
III.5
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A credit file "security freeze" is a preventive tool to help you avoid identity theft and to block impostors from using your personal information to establish credit.
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Grande Truanderie_, which was above the Innocents, must have been the rendez-vous of all the thieves and beggars of Paris, if there be any thing in a name: the old chronicles of the city relate, indeed, that it took a long time to respectabilize its neighbourhood; and they add that the herds of rogues and impostors who once lived in it took refuge, after their ejection, in the famous _Cour des Miracles_, a little higher up the Rue St Denis.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
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As he bore it patiently, and did not answer, they doubtless supposed they had discovered another reason to think he was an impostor; The word prophesy does not mean only to foretell future events -- although that is the proper meaning of the word; but also to declare anything that is unknown, or anything which cannot be known by natural knowledge, or without revelation.
Barnes New Testament Notes
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Original, well thought-out ideas will be rewarded and impostors won't last.
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But it is an impostor, a sort of Toad Hall that pretends to an amplitude and height it hasn't got.
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He turned detective, tracked down the impostor and called the police.
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It is able to authenticate the caller's identity, or to flag possible impostors, with a high degree of accuracy.
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Her harshest critics consider her to be ‘one of most accomplished, ingenious, and interesting impostors in history.’
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Everyone thought I knew what I was doing, but I felt like a fraud, an impostor, the Great Pretender!
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The heterogeneous triflings which now, I am very sorry to say, occupy so much of our time, will be neglected; fashion's votaries will silently fall off; dishonest exertions for rank in society will be scorned; extravagance in toilet will be detested; that meager and worthless pride of station will be forgotten; the honest earnings of dependents will be paid; popular demagogues crushed; impostors unpatronized; true genius sincerely encouraged; and, above all, pawned integrity redeemed!
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
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Many of her class set out by being impostors, and end by becoming enthusiasts, or hold a kind of darkling conduct between both lines, unconscious almost when they are cheating themselves, or when imposing on others.
Chapter XLVII
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A credit file "security freeze" is a preventive tool to help you avoid identity theft and to block impostors from using your personal information to establish credit.
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If you poke them a bit (and maybe buy them a few drinks), many academics will confess to sometimes feeling like impostors perennially threatened with humiliating exposure.
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They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music, even as the impostor popes went down in history as ‘anti-popes’.
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Ruha did not hesitate; she swung her arm up backward and drove the tip of her jambiya deep into the impostor's torso.
The Veiled Dragon
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Purple Hearts are only given to American soldiers killed or injured in battle, and there have recently been cases of impostors using fake military medals to get ahead in business.
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This is not Doctor Malcolm, he is an impostor.
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In fact, on closer inspection he still looked like an impostor.
PROSPECT HILL
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On his part, he had no doubts that the claimant was an impostor and his supporters fools and rogues.
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As Kipling put it in his poem: ‘If you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same…’
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The policy of their chiefs has on this occasion been admired, and might surely be excused; but a pious baud is seldom produced by the cool conspiracy of many persons; and a voluntary impostor might depend on the support of the wise and the credulity of the people.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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On his part, he had no doubts that the claimant was an impostor and his supporters fools and rogues.
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impostors have tried to interlope on the action
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Biscay, or off the storm-lashed rocks of Finisterre, we set down the author in question as a gross impostor, and had a mind to quarrel with him for leading us into this cruel error.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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From the beginning, professions mobilised themselves in their defence against quacks and impostors through associations or institutes.
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I guess that proves he’s an impostor, or that public funding is worse than the bankroll from the utilities.
Waldo Jaquith - Patrick Michaels: appointed by…nobody?
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It is, then, not only the impostor's willingness to deceive on which their success depends, but the fact that we are on the whole astonishingly trusting and generally do not expect to be lied to.
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The definitions will differentiate cheaper impostors from the best oil: those cold-pressed, pure, golden-hued products that lead connoisseurs to talk of grass tones, apple or nut flavors, and peppery finishes, in a language usually reserved for wines.
Feds To Begin Enforcing Olive Oil Designations
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This one could be an impostor, maybe hired by Algie, to wipe out any opposition to the match.
WEEKEND FOR MURDER
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Socrates concluded that the ethics experts of his time were impostors, or to be more precise, that they were flatterers who had a knack for telling affluent Athenians just what they wanted to hear.
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Thus the blurring of reality and fiction comes full circle: the impostor now gets to play himself in a film depicting his imposture and its consequences.
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One of the reasons that military impersonation is tempting and relatively easy is the respect that military uniforms and regalia elicit from civilians and lower ranks, the kind of respect that the impostors crave.
ARTHUR REX CRANE
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A consultant, however, suggested that the acute and late onset in an otherwise psychiatrically well person, the delusions of impostors (Capgras syndrome) and real and false neighborhoods (reduplicative paramnesia), and her difficulties finding her way about the unit (spatial disorientation) possibly indicated a nondominant parietal lobe stroke.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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Poets, my friend, are the most absolute impostors, .. they melodize their rhymed music on phases of emotion they have never experienced; as for instance our Lameate yonder will string a pretty sonnet on the despair of love, he knowing nothing of despair, .. he will write of a broken heart, his own being unpricked by so much as a pin's point of trouble; and he will speak in his verso of dying for love when he would not let his little finger ache for the sake of a woman who worshipped him!
Ardath
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Practitioners of their religion were either sunk in superstition or hypocrites and impostors.
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On the way the impostor went missing herself, perhaps returned to her own identity.
THE QUEST FOR K
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Two professed Lives of Mahomet have been composed by Dr. Prideaux (Life of Mahomet, seventh edition, London, 1718, in octavo) and the count de Boulainvilliers, (Vie de Mahomed, Londres, 1730, in octavo:) but the adverse wish of finding an impostor or a hero, has too often corrupted the learning of the doctor and the ingenuity of the count.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Here there is no direct predication concerning Joe Smith, but only a predication of one of the alternatives conditionally on the other being denied, as, _If Joe Smith was not a prophet he was an impostor_; or, _If he was not an impostor, he was a prophet_.
Logic Deductive and Inductive
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The budding scientists of today will need to prepare themselves to do battle with silliness, impostors, tricksters and fraudsters.
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I'm a fake, a phony, a fraud, an impostor, and a charlatan of the worse degree.
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These rapacious relations managed to poison her ears, arguing the new man was an impostor out to swindle her and them.
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Here are five of the wildest records ever chronicled by The Guinness Book of Records, plus five impostors.
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An impostor could not pretend to have a good search engine.
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In Leicester, though, they treat those twin impostors, panic and the ticking clock, with disdain.
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He felt like an impostor among all those intelligent people, as if he had no right to be there.
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Thousands of complaints pour in annually to the FBI and civilian groups about impostors flaunting store-bought medals. ...
Media Coverage September 2009
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4 By this false faitour, who unworthy wears faitour > impostor, cheat wears > bears, carries
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