imposture
- n pretending to be another person
- In this shrewd, satiric novel about Vella and his villainy, Sicily's Leonardo Sciascia hilariously spoofs impostors and imposture and etches a bitter likeness of sunny Sicily's .
- Such unrepentant imposture, although common enough, was not practised last week in Paris, when a banquet consisting chiefly of horse, donkey and mule meat was set before three .
- They marshal their pornography under a variety of shams: some affecting the disguise of wit, some the imposture of art.