A person who makes deceitful pretenses.

synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, role player, sham, shammer.

Dutch: snoever, vervalser, bedrieger, fraudeur
Polish: impostor

often used in combination Not genuine but having the appearance of.

Roget 17: similar; resembling etc. v.; like, alike; twin.    analogous, analogical; parallel, of a piece [Fr.]; such as, so; homoiousian^†.    connatural^†, congener, allied to; akin to etc. (consanguineous) 11.    approximate, much the same, near, close, something like, sort of, in the ballpark, such like; a show of; mock, pseudo, simulating, representing.    exact etc. (true) 494; lifelike, faithful; true to nature, true to life, the very image, the very picture of; for all the world like, comme deux gouttes d'eau [Fr.]; as like as two peas in a pod, as like as it can stare; instar omnium [Lat.], cast in the same mold, ridiculously like.    ... show more

Roget 545: deceived etc. v.; deceiving &c.; cunning etc. 702; prestigious^†, prestigiatory^†; deceptive, deceptious^†; deceitful, covinous^†; delusive, delusory; illusive, illusory; elusive, insidious, ad captandum vulgus [Lat.].    untrue etc. 546; mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide [Slang], pseudo, spurious, supposititious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus, scamped, fraudulent, tricky, factitious bastard; surreptitious, illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated; unsound, rotten at the core; colorable; disguised; meretricious, tinsel, pinchbeck, plated; catchpenny; Brummagem.    artificial, synthetic, ersatz [G.]; simulated etc. 544.    ... show more