0 a person who pretends to be someone else in order to deceive others:
He felt like an impostor among all those intelligent people, as if he had no right to be there.
1 a person who pretends to be someone else in order to deceive others
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.