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Synonyms and Antonyms of pretender

(noun.person)
fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer
a person who makes deceitful pretenses (noun.person)
(noun.person)
dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony
a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives (noun.person)

a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title) (noun.person)

claimant
someone who claims a benefit or right or title (noun.person)
a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives (noun.person)

beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true (noun.person)

a person who makes deceitful pretenses (noun.person)

name dropper
someone who pretends that famous people are his/her friends (noun.person)
(noun.person)
ringer
a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses (noun.person)
a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives (noun.person)

charmer, smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker
someone with an assured and ingratiating manner (noun.person)
(noun.person)
tartufe, tartuffe
a hypocrite who pretends to religious piety (after the protagonist in a play by Moliere) (noun.person)
(noun.person)
whited sepulcher, whited sepulchre
a person who is inwardly evil but outwardly professes to be virtuous (noun.person)

a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title) (noun.person)

pretend
put forward a claim and assert right or possession of (verb.possession)
a person who makes deceitful pretenses (noun.person)

bull, bullshit, fake, talk through one's hat
speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths (verb.communication)
(verb.creation)
counterfeit, fake, forge
make a copy of with the intent to deceive (verb.creation)
(verb.creation)
act, dissemble, pretend
behave unnaturally or affectedly (verb.creation)
(verb.creation)
assume, feign, sham, simulate
make a pretence of (verb.creation)
(verb.social)
cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle
tamper, with the purpose of deception (verb.social)
(adj.all)
assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham
adopted in order to deceive (adj.all)
a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives (noun.person)

affect, dissemble, feign, pretend, sham
make believe with the intent to deceive (verb.communication)
(adj.all)
bastard, bogus, fake, phoney, phony
fraudulent; having a misleading appearance (adj.all)

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