“He seemed to be not so much a fallen tyrant as a silly sham and an imposture.”

“There was a suggestion that the document was an imposture. I find it to have been a document, in fact, made legitimately.”

“What the monologue thus conceives is an experience under negation, never fully bound in the present, another mode of imposture.”

“Suspicion is first aroused if breeding wrens find a nestling home alone, as the imposter will eject all the natural offspring.”

“Sometimes the country has to take precedence over a do-nothing imposter and pretender to the throne.”

“The imposter used a photograph of the father that was available on the web site of the father's employer to populate the profile.”

“The fact that she is an impostor makes an incredibly ironic point about hypocrisy.”

“On his part, he had no doubts that the claimant was an impostor and his supporters fools and rogues.”

“Whenever a king in the Middle Ages was toppled, an impostor would pop up somewhere claiming to be him.”

“Their findings have veered well away from the original conception of impostorism as a reflection of an anxious personality or a cultural stereotype.”

“Yet even after he had sold his story to Life magazine, and exposed his strategies, he was unable to resist further impostures.”

“A sketch of so many calamities does not seem but a massive record of impostures, and even from such a tender age the cruel lashings made me aware of my humble condition.”

“In 1871, Walter W Skeat published a complete and critical edition of Chatterton's poems, carefully dividing the poet's acknowledged work from his medieval impostures.”

“Practitioners of their religion were either sunk in superstition or hypocrites and impostors.”

“From the beginning, professions mobilised themselves in their defence against quacks and impostors through associations or institutes.”

“Except that, in today's Britain, the only muffins available are transatlantic impostors.”

“An audience of both genders tries to discover whom the imposters are, by asking questions and analyzing the panel members' answers.”

“With identity theft so rife, it would be too easy for imposters to hack accounts.”

“But even apart from the reactionary content of their politics, the dearth of substantive analysis brands them as charlatans and imposters.”