imposture

1 It denounced the new rules as “shame, scandal, imposture,” even “treason,” while dismissing pasteurized milk camembert as “lifeless matter,” “pasteurized plaster” and “an ocean of mediocrity.”

2 That view has not changed — but in empty Rome, still reeling from a year’s cultural deprivation, I felt myself oddly moved by this catastrophic imposture, and the hopelessness of Hirst’s Roman holiday.

3 Glancing from handball on smartphone to basketball on telly to table tennis on laptop, I realised the IOC has perpetrated an imposture more sinister than its sponsorship policies.

4 Washington also gave this advice: “Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.”

5 One of the highlights of Cercas’s portrait of his impostor quarry is a tour de force imposture of his own, in which he captures Marco’s grandiose comic rhetoric — an imposture of an impostor.

6 This last imposture would be worse than the first.

那最后的骗局就比先前的更坏了！

7 “This doesn’t change anything in the work that we are conducting; that doesn’t change anything in the reality. It is an imposture with the Core Group and the Americans.”

8 Even after the imposture was revealed, however, Taliban leaders remained positive that that their trick could still work.

9 By the end, this newly bold Portia, empowered by imposture, is more singer than speaker.

10 The commissioners were startled and amazed, and said, "It is clear that this is not the relic the people have imagined; perhaps it is all an imposture."

11 “The Good Lord Bird,” for example, has not only John Brown the abolitionist to drive it along, but a surprising case of gender imposture at its heart as well.

12 A more recent imposture, which is still having harmful effects, is the vaccine scare that began in 1998.

13 Marianne explains that part of her method is to make sure that, whatever the details of the imposture, the feeling is real.

14 As we entered the chilly white-granite building, I expected that the sweet granny volunteering at the front desk would detect my imposture and call security to perp-walk me off the premises.

15 Cercas believes this is because the entire Spanish nation was resolving its shameful complicity in fascist rule and Hitler friendship and forging its own imposture of resistance.

16 Brown reviles religion and treats earthly powers as a pious imposture.

17 The lousy party at Tate Modern on Sunday afternoon felt like the spectre of the Dome, come to remind us of the strange cultural impostures of the past 13 years.

18 Moreover, according to many people who know him, Mallory has a history of imposture, and of duping people with false stories about disease and death.

19 I think that becoming aware of this general imposture that concerns all of us would ease our love relationships.

我觉得，越来越意识到这种一般的冒用性，这样的忧虑就得以缓解我们的恋爱关系。

20 The imposture is clumsy and tentative, which Laurel blames on amnesia from the accident.

1 欺骗

double-tongued funny prestigious cheating delusive gyp tricksy trickish flamdoodle suck-in have do sell kid pass trick false fraud cheat rig lurk bluff juggle delusion hoax deceit trickery wile swindle charlatan gaff stealing subterfuge circumvention indirection gammon hocus hokum skullduggery skulduggery hocus-pocus trickiness flimflam roguery cozen flivver shenanigan jiggery-pokery jugglery humbuggery dupery swizz swiz chouse inveracity thimblerig yentz string impose fox deceive gag two-time spoof duff illude double-clock horn-swoggle take job short green beat lie burn abuse smoke hook bite spin trim palm fool rim stall gum bitch hustle hum fiddle jockey cog dope skunk doodle dupe fob gull defraud victimize lurch delude jive bamboozle flam euchre double-cross razzle-dazzle cully gold-brick befool take-in leg-pull skin game double cross monkey business

2 招摇撞骗

quackery

3 冒名

personate

4 假冒

counterfeit phony pseudo supposititious pretense pretend assume imitate

5 诈欺

imposturous con juggling take-in have do fraud cheat ramp scam hype fiddle juggle imposition pretense trickery swindle indirection eyewash fraudulence flimflam roguery crookery jugglery dupery cozenage fakement double-deal jockey humbug finagle pluck dupe ream gold-brick chouse skin game shell game

6 欺诈

unfair indirect deceptive bogus insidious disingenuous insincere plant fraud fiddle juggle cunning imposition dishonesty ruse guile insincerity bunco knavery swindling cheat racketeer trick impose scam defraud bilk flimflam swindle skin game two faces under one hood double-tongued schlenter fast false fraudulent oblique two-faced cronk dodgery gullery have sell lie shift burn twist rig ramp hype deception graft racket gull deceit trickery wile rip-off contrivance humbug indirection barney hocus flam skulduggery razzle-dazzle fraudulence roguery crookery cooch jugglery dupery carve-up cootch chouse cross cog sharp deceive finagle gazump rogue sting hustle fleece jockey gouge ream goldbrick on the crook

7 冒名顶替

spoof

8 欺骗行为

rort lie fiddle double-cross covin

9 骗局

take-in bubble hoax bunco mystification skullduggery skulduggery con-trick con trick skin game shell game