What is "imposter"

Usage examples of "imposter".

The imposter sister was not nearly as polished-looking as the anchorwoman, with tousled spikes in her auburn hair and barely a drop of makeup to adorn her catlike eyes.

I laughed at him, as I knew it was all a cheat, and I followed him to the house with the idea of making the young imposter dismount from her high horse, as I had done in similar cases in England and Metz.

Cases of pseudocyesis in women convicted of murder are not uncommon, though most of them are imposters hoping for an extra lease of life.

In the marchlands, imposters sometimes ride into villages and claim to be clerics, or lords, or heathen sorcerers with the power to make birds talk and the rivers run with gold.

Second, he is an imposter, for he has always sailed under assumed names, first calling himself Bailey, then Stanley, then Johnson and next Douglass.

But the alternative-today-is for me to assume that you are an imposter most carefully coached and then to question you endlessly in an attempt to trip you.

But the alternative—today—is for me to assume that you are an imposter most carefully coached and then to question you endlessly in an attempt to trip you.

He had once hurled an entire stack of hardbacks and a water carafe at a Runewind imposter.

I will say, you're the most complete group of imposters we've arrested so far.

It's been a long time since we had to beware of clone imposters in public life, but in as important a case as this, the question had to come up eventually.

Helens, I think that was an imposter, and I think it's leading astray my niece and nephew, your grandkids.

Toss in Imposters, Dick's account of a human scientist hunted by aliens, one of whom has usurped his place, a film that several A-list scriptwriters tried unsuccessfully to doctor and which since has been yanked from distribution, and you will gather that Dick's immediate cinematic future is to consist of megablasts of brightly hued, hack-writer-generated meadow muffin, augmented by great glorioso dollops of Flatulaphonic sound, aimed at an undiscerning popcorn- feeding subspecies that can be found grazing the multiplexes with its young, living proof that Dick's first major theme still has relevance in contemporary society.

Now the invaders, stripped of their protective coloration, were revealed for what they were: brutal imposters who had terrorized the land, using the Prince's illusions to mask their true identity while they put humanity to the sword.

On Toby's television system this imposter looked like a parody of the Lord.