39 adjectives to describe impostor

Bickerstaff promptly replied that Partridge was dead by his own infallible rules of astrology, and that the man now claiming to be Partridge was a vile impostor.

Aesculapius his son had his temples erected to his deity, and did many famous cures; but, as Lactantius holds, he was a magician, a mere impostor, and as his successors, Phaon, Podalirius, Melampius, Menecrates, (another God), by charms, spells, and ministry of bad spirits, performed most of their cures.

© 19Mar25, A822716. R108283, 5Feb53, The Reilly & Lee Co. (PWH) VENNER, JANE The imperfect impostor.

Was it ever heard, even in Turkey or Algiers, that a State Astrologer was bantered out of his life, by an ignorant impostor? or bawled out of the world, by a pack of villanous deep-mouthed hawkers?

A beggar!the wretched impostor."

Four years later Caussin de Perceval in his Essai sur l'histoire des Arabes, written quite independently of Weil, expresses the same idea in these words: "It would be an injustice to Mohammed to consider him as no more than a clever impostor, an ambitious man of genius; he was in the first place a man convinced of his vocation to deliver his nation from error and to regenerate it.

So far from being the picture of perfection, it sometimes seems to me the picture of a conscious and wilful impostor.

DickensonProfessor HallViews of Ex-presidents Madison, Jefferson, and Adams on geologyGeological noticesPlan of a gazetteerOpinions of my Narrative Journal by scientific gentlemenThe impostor John Dunn HunterTrip up the PotomacMosaical chronologyVisit to Mount Vernon.

Rousseau might be really a fanatic, and, though eccentric, honest; yet his power of adorning impracticable systems, it must be acknowledged, has been more mischievous to society than a thousand such gross impostors as Marat.

I have confirmed him in this conjecture, esteeming it for the interest of science that his anger should fall upon an impudent impostor like thee rather than on a discreet and learned physician like myself.

The visionary equality of metaphysical impostors is become a substantial onenot constituted by abundance and freedom, but by want and oppression.

You miserable impostors!'

DickensonProfessor HallViews of Ex-presidents Madison, Jefferson, and Adams on geologyGeological noticesPlan of a gazetteerOpinions of my Narrative Journal by scientific gentlemenThe impostor John Dunn HunterTrip up the PotomacMosaical chronologyVisit to Mount Vernon.

The larger number of fakirs are merely religious tramps, worthless, useless impostors, living upon the fears and superstitions of the people and doing more harm than good.

Mr. Gataker's reply was entitled Thomas Gataker, B.D. his Vindication of the annotation by him published upon these words, "thus saith the Lord," (Jer. x. 2) against the scurrilous aspersions of that grand impostor William Lilly; as also against the various expositions of two of his advocates Mr. John Swan, and another by him cited but not named.

In our days we have a new scene of superstitious impostors and heretics.

BEAUTY OF BUTTERMERE (3 syl.), Mary Robinson, who married John Hatfield, a heartless impostor executed for forgery at Carlisle in 1803.

The discomfited, hypocritical impostor, renegade and interloper will forgive, and pray for them.

The man was an impostor, a tool, as criminal as his employernot the footprint on the sand was more suggestive to Robinson Crusoe than that luminous streak to me, nor the cause of wilder conjecture.

To unmask those canonised impostors.

The larger number of fakirs are merely religious tramps, worthless, useless impostors, living upon the fears and superstitions of the people and doing more harm than good.

This prerogative of vouching is an important one which every Master Mason is entitled, under certain restrictions, to exercise; but it is also one which may so materially affect the well-being of the whole fraternitysince by its injudicious use impostors might be introduced among the faithfulthat it should be controlled by the most stringent regulations.

"Why, you insane impostor!"

While here, I was introduced one day to a man who subsequently attracted a good deal of notice as a literary impostor.

It seems not improbable, that he also translated Homer and Diodorus; and Doni the bookmaker asserts, that he wrote a work called the Testamento dell' Anima (the Soul's Testament) but Mr. Panizzi calls Doni "a barefaced impostor;" and says, that as the work is mentioned by nobody else, we may be "certain that it never existed," and that the title was "a forgery of the impudent priest.

39 adjectives to describe  impostor