(noun) The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating.
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Kelime: im·pos·ture Söyleniş:im-'päs-ch&r İşlev:noun Kökeni: Late Latin impostura, from Latin impositus, impostus, past participle of imponere 1 : the act or practice of deceiving by means of an assumed character or name 2 : an instance of imposture synonymsIMPOSTURE, FRAUD, SHAM, FAKE, HUMBUG, COUNTERFEIT mean a thing made to seem other than it is. IMPOSTURE applies to any situation in which a spurious object or performance is passed off as genuine their claim of environmental concern is an imposture . FRAUD usually implies a deliberate perversion of the truth the diary was exposed as a fraud . SHAM applies to fraudulent imitation of a real thing or action condemned the election as a sham . FAKE implies an imitation of or substitution for the genuine but does not necessarily imply dishonesty these jewels are fakes; the real ones are in the vault . HUMBUG suggests elaborate pretense usually so flagrant as to be transparent creating publicity by foisting humbugs on a gullible public . COUNTERFEIT applies especially to the close imitation of something valuable 20-dollar bills that were counterfeits .
