impostor

How To Use impostor In A Sentence

• 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_. Logic Deductive and Inductive
• I guess that proves he’s an impostor, or that public funding is worse than the bankroll from the utilities. Waldo Jaquith - Patrick Michaels: appointed by…nobody?
• From the beginning, professions mobilised themselves in their defence against quacks and impostors through associations or institutes.
• Biscay, or off the storm-lashed rocks of Finisterre, we set down the author in question as a gross impostor, and had a mind to quarrel with him for leading us into this cruel error. Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
• impostors have tried to interlope on the action
• On his part, he had no doubts that the claimant was an impostor and his supporters fools and rogues.
• The policy of their chiefs has on this occasion been admired, and might surely be excused; but a pious baud is seldom produced by the cool conspiracy of many persons; and a voluntary impostor might depend on the support of the wise and the credulity of the people. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• As Kipling put it in his poem: ‘If you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same…’
• On his part, he had no doubts that the claimant was an impostor and his supporters fools and rogues.
• In fact, on closer inspection he still looked like an impostor. PROSPECT HILL