| 单词 | imposture |
| 释义 | im·pos·ture I. 1. < careful not to detect cases of malingering … and thus placed a premium on imposture — G.E.Fussell > 2. < admitted under oath that the whole defense of insanity was an imposture and a sham — B.N.Cardozo > Synonyms: < its values … are an imposture: pretending to honor and distinction it accepts all that is vulgar and base — Edmund Wilson > cheat applies to any abuse of credence and faith by misleading or trickery and also to delusion induced by the victim's credulousness < though the counts allowed the cheat for fact … and let the tale o' the feigned birth pass for true — Robert Browning > < the cheat which still leads us to work and live for appearances — R.W.Emerson > fraud is likely to indicate a calculated perversion of the truth; applied to a person it may be less condemnatory and suggest pretence and hypocrisy < many persons persisted in believing that his supposed suicide was but another fraud — Justin M'Carthy > < the pious fraud who freely indulges in the sins against which he eloquently preaches — Oliver LaFarge > deceit indicates anything that deceives or misleads, usually purposefully, and is strongly condemnatory < Indians were … treacherous according to the white man's standards, since they held that the basest trickery or deceit was not dishonorable if directed against a foe — American Guide Series: Rhode Island > deception is often interchangeable with deceit but is used without condemnation in reference to sleights and feints and to innocent or natural characteristics likely to mislead < practice gross deception on the public with all the earnestness of a moral “crusade” — K.S.Davis > < a fast backfield trained in deception > counterfeit refers to a close imitation or copy of a thing, usually one made or circulated for dishonest gain < this bill's a counterfeit > in reference to persons or ideas or qualities it suggests spurious although close imitation without culpable intent to deceive < not really a married woman and a housemistress but only a kind of counterfeit — Arnold Bennett > sham is severe in censuring what fraudulently imitates or purports to be a genuine reality < perhaps her devotion to Marcellus was a sham and her real intention was that Agrippa should be goaded into putting him out of the way — Robert Graves > < if people would only build on facts, not on shams — Ellen Glasgow > fake refers to something factitious or assumed with plausible closeness to the original, genuine, or true; it may or may not condemn, depending on culpable intent to deceive < Gaston B. Means's volume, The Strange Death of President Harding, … bears every imprint of being a thoroughgoing fake — S.H.Adams > < he pretends everything is what it is not, he is a fake — Katherine A. Porter > humbug indicates elaborate pretense, especially so flagrant that it approaches transparency < you're a humbug, sir … I will speak plainer, if you wish it. An imposter, sir — Charles Dickens > < these liars warn't no kings nor dukes, at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds — Mark Twain > simulacrum indicates an image or imitation but usually lacks the suggestion that it is made to defraud; it may indicate an image utterly wanting in essential substance or reality < nothing but a coat and a wig and a mask smiling below it — nothing but a great simulacrum — W.M.Thackeray > < something whose essence was not there at all, a stiff lifeless simulacrum — J.C.Powys > II. obsolete transitive verb 1. obsolete 2. obsolete |
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