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Definition of Impostures

Imposture
Imposture Im*pos"ture, n. [L. impostura: cf. F. imposture. See Impone.] The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating. From new legends And fill the world with follies and impostures. --Johnson. Syn: Cheat; fraud; trick; imposition; delusion.

Meaning of Impostures from wikipedia

- Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (UK: Intellectual Impostures), first published in French in 1997 as Impostures intellectuelles, is a book by physicists Alan...
- Imposture is a Caroline era stage play, a tragicomedy written by James Shirley and first published in 1652. Shirley himself considered The Imposture the...
- decrease their international student quotas, international students may imposture as asylum claimants. Some impostors may do it for pathological reasons...
- Jean (1997), Impostures intellectuelles (in French), Paris: Odile Jacob, ISBN 2-7381-0503-3 Sokal, Alan; Bricmont, Jean (1999), Impostures intellectuelles...
- L'effroyable Imposture (or "The Horrifying Fraud") is the original French title of a highly controversial and discredited 2002 book by French journalist...
- French peasant of the 16th century, was at the centre of a famous case of imposture. Several years after Martin Guerre had left his wife, child and village...
- dismissing the entire Muslim faith as "reactionary and ****cutory". In Impostures intellectuelles (1997), physics professors Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont...
- Brian Lachlan MacKinnon (born 3 June 1963) is a Scottish impostor who gained notoriety by returning to his former school by posing as a teenager when he...
- shocking thing about Flip's (Adam Driver's undercover detective role) imposture is how easy it seems, how natural he looks and sounds. This unnerving...
- Quarrels with Science by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt and Intellectual Impostures by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. These books are famous for their criticism...