Pretender

Definition of Pretender

Pre`tend´er
n.1.(Eng. Hist.) One who lays claim, or asserts a title (to something); a claimant.
It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident pretenders to certainty.
- Glanvill.
2.One who pretends, simulates, or feigns.

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actor, affecter, arrogator, aspirant, blagueur, bluff, bluffer, candidate, charlatan, claimant, deceiver, fake, faker, fourflusher, fraud, hollow man, humbug, impersonator, impostor, malingerer, man of straw, mannerist, mountebank, paper tiger, performer, phony, playactor, poser, poseur, quack, quacksalver, quackster, ringer, rival, saltimbanco, seeker, sham, shammer, straw man, suitor, usurper
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