- impostor
- n1. deceiver, bamboozler, hoodwinker, trickster, pettifogger; misleader, bluff, bluffer, Inf. fourflusher, deluder, duper; cheat, cheater, Inf. gyp or gypper, swindler, Archaic. chouser, chiseler, Inf. did-dler, defrauder, bilker; exploiter, confidence man, Sl. con man, Sl. rip-off artist, Sl. flimflam man, smooth or fast talker; sharper, sharpie, shark.2. masquerader, humbug, wolf in sheep's clothing, dissembler, hypocrite, pharisee; pretender, fake, Inf. faker, fraud, sham, phony; charlatan, quack, mountebank, Inf. shyster.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.