Word: imposture
Category: imposture
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Synonyms: imposture
waste time, dally, dawdle, loiter, linger, take one's time, delay, temporize, stall, procrastinate, pussyfoot around, drag one's feet, dither, hesitate, falter, vacillate, waver, hem and haw, shilly-shally, lollygag, let the grass grow under one's feet, tarry, dillydally, shillyshally, drag one's heels
Translations: imposture
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spanish
Translations:
embuste, impostura
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german
Translations:
betrug, schwindel
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french
Translations:
imposture, escroquerie, fourberie, supercherie, duperie, fraude, tricherie, tromperie
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russian
Translations:
жульничество, самозванец, обман, самозванство, шарлатан
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norwegian
Translations:
bedrageri
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czech
Translations:
podvádění, podvod
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polish
Translations:
oszustwo
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croatian
Translations:
prevara
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slovak
Translations:
podvod
The meaning and "use of": imposture
noun
- an instance of pretending to be someone else in order to deceive others. - In my previous impostures in the English department, I had picked up some of the rudiments of Romanticism, but one idea that intrigued me was Edmund Burke's theory of the sublime.
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