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impostor

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

冒名顶替者,冒牌货,冒名顶替的人,骗子

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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

  • If you’re feeling like an impostor because your peers make you feel like one, I want you to know that that’s on them, not you.

  • Scammers are known to create cons based on current events, but this scheme — calling families grieving after losing a loved one to covid — is a despicable twist on the typical government impostor scam.

  • If my family sees me emptying the top rack first, willingly, they will know I have been replaced by an impostor.

  • Friends trying to contact me reported corresponding with an impostor named Krystal.

  • Baseball manager Tony LaRussa tried to sue Twitter over a vulgar impostor account.

  • Celebrities, corporations, and politicians have impostor Twitter accounts pop up all the time.

  • Finally, my impostor account was gone, deleted by Twitter with no fanfare.

  • By the time I discovered I had an impostor, “monkey boy” had been actively tweeting for weeks.

  • In 1851 she visited Birmingham and was a welcome guest until "someone blundered" and charged her with being an impostor.

  • Had this stupendous miracle no effect upon the Jewish priests who had crucified Christ as an impostor?

  • Then, the sallow, black-haired knave who had last night proclaimed himself as Garnache in disguise was some impostor.

  • In this respect he will differ from all impostors; for an impostor never had power to "minister this spirit."

  • He was launched on an adventure as whimsical as tragical, if he was an impostor; and if he was not, as pathetic as droll.