impostor vs imposter
Definitions
noun
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
Examples
Here there is no direct predication concerning Joe Smith, but only a predication of one of the alternatives conditionally on the other being denied, as, _If Joe Smith was not a prophet he was an impostor_; or, _If he was not an impostor, he was a prophet_.
I guess that proves he’s an impostor, or that public funding is worse than the bankroll from the utilities.
From the beginning, professions mobilised themselves in their defence against quacks and impostors through associations or institutes.
Definitions
noun
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
Examples
It also means the expert deception of the senses by the tricks of a conjurer, so-called hocus-pocus and fraud, and a magician is either an evil-minded, superstitious mortal, fool enough to believe in charms, or an expert pretender and imposter of the first water, who cheats and deceives the people.
That list was obviously compiled by an imposter.
Sometimes the country has to take precedence over a do-nothing imposter and pretender to the throne.
