impostor

He proposed the establishment of bureaucratic review committees to distinguish between the worthy students and the many impostors that allegedly filled the medreses.

If backing down or reneging on a policy promise is costly, then such pronouncements help separate resolved states from the many impostors.

The political account of enthusiasm, another nonmedical interpretation given to the phenomenon of prophecy and enthusiasm, viewed the enthusiasts as impostors and even conspirators.

To her father, her verbal precocity implies that she must be an impostor.

But the idea of qualitative superiority cannot be any of the impostors.

These impostors can all be accommodated by standard hedonism, which regards pleasure - the sole intrinsic value - as a single kind of feeling whatever its sources or objects.

It is clearly recognised that fraud must be eradicated and impostors punished.

The important thing is that individual touch should be kept with the men, so that they should not help men who are impostors.

If so, then we are nothing but a bunch of impostors, applying different standards to different countries.

Would he be sufficiently protected if the vendor or the purporting vendor were in fact an impostor?

It would have been said, in varying tones of indignation, that he was little better than a hollow impostor and meant to go no further.

The celebrity panelists question the three contestants; the impostors are allowed to lie but the central character is sworn to tell the truth.

She then handed over the money to an accomplice of the impostor.

In the beginning of this poem the fox is anything but a successful impostor, being generally outwitted by far weaker animals.

This disorder is defined as a delusion that a close relative or friend has been replaced by an impostor.