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imposter

/im-pos-ter/US // ɪmˈpɒs tər //UK // (ɪmˈpɒstə) //

冒名顶替者,冒牌货,冒名顶替,冒名者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who practices deception under an assumed character, identity, or name.

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Examples

  • You’re either a crewmate or an impostor, and no one else knows.

  • Crewmates win by finishing tasks, or identifying and ejecting all the impostors before you’re outnumbered.

  • Patrick Lucas AustinAvailable on Nintendo SwitchDeception is the name of the game in Among Us, a kind of digital Clue in which you’re tasked with “sussing” out the impostor on your starship.

  • Representation in senior positions is also essential for curbing impostor syndrome, which affects women more than men.

  • Worse still, they called on an expert witness—an imposter—who made a mockery of scientific procedure.

  • Later, he was captured by Henry, “confessed” that he was an imposter and was executed.

  • With the real Bert Rodriguez in view, word seems to be spreading quickly that I am an imposter.

  • “Philip did not seem ever to feel like an imposter in his own life,” she thinks to herself, more than once.

  • You may have even had a Kobe imposter from Japan before 2010.

  • He looked upon her as a species of imposter; a guilty woman in the guise of an innocent one.

  • "Some imposter who wished to come into the town barefoot, perhaps, and so excite our sympathies," said Miss Chant.

  • He wanted to run, to burst away from the imposter, but the guy was shaking so hard Bart couldn't just leave him standing there.

  • "Some imposter must have assumed it," suggested the officer.

  • If old Urique knew you were an imposter, what sort of things would happen to you?