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Impostor
"Impostor" in a Sentence (15 examples)
His father is an impostor.
I feel like an impostor.
Tom is an impostor.
The impostor has been caught.
Sami was a lying impostor.
You call me an Impostor! And why?
The doctor was soon discovered to be an impostor.
Even a sophist who deceives without deceiving himself is not yet an impostor, as long as he confines himself to the authority of reason, even though he abuses it.
An impostor wants to be believed on his word; he wants to make authority by himself.
An impostor is a cheat who wants to impose on others for his profit; and where, I beg you, is my profit in this affair?
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"It were dishonour in me to yield. I will not play the part of an impostor, whom my uncle must despise even while he screens. No; these estates are his right: let him take them; I will not buy them with his daughter's hand."
Then again these figures take no account of the thousands of beggars who travel free in India. Many of these are religious "Sadhus", dressed often in nothing but a loin-cloth, or even less, and their bodies smeared with ashes. A large number of these men are nothing but impostors, but the Hindu railway staff usually are afraid to interfere with them.
“I said he had a criminal face.” “He can't help his face.” “He can help being a crook and an impostor. Calls himself a butler, does he? The police could shake that story. He's no more a butler than I am.”
Interestingly, Wang shows that Chinese allows the appearance of an indexical pronoun alongside the imposter, as in (31).
One possibility is that mothers of HR [higher-risk] infants frequently use non-pronoun forms in place of pronouns, as in the impostor uses noted above.
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