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- noun Plural form of
imposture .
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Examples
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He is too much of a gentleman to be guilty of such impostures, and insults, and villainies as these.
The woman with the twenty-dollar bill. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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“Guard against impostures of pretended patriotism.”
Think Progress » San Francisco Commonwealth Club postpones O’Keefe event. 2010
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In these private talks he demonstrated that he knew their game as well as they did, and that he was no slave to the dark superstitions and gross impostures with which they kept the people in submission.
CHAPTER XV 2010
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I doubt it happened in this case, but if that were the standard for weighing the credibility of an idea, partisans would only have to send a cadre of impostures to opposition events to behave poorly or ignorantly to discount the entire opposition.
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Mental derangement is the cause of…sexual crimes and arson, and, to a lesser extent, dangerous assaults, thefts, and impostures, he warned.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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As I was bidden, I turned from the trail straight into knee-deep waters that slowed my retreat from the negotiations or impostures behind me, following the fitful path of the raven through the branches ahead of me.
Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010
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In this he insisted that surrealism is not "a mere literary or artistic school," but "an unrelenting revolt against a civilisation that reduces all human aspirations to market values, religious impostures, universal boredom and misery."
Archive 2009-04-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism ~ George Washington
Larisa Alexandrovna: The Far-Right's Patriotism Problem 2008
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Washington's plea to the nation "to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism" sets the standard for enlightened political discourse.
Robert Scheer: Petraeus' Testimony: Everything His President Wants to Hear 2008
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We are drowning in the "impostures of pretended patriotism," used to cover the lies that got us into Iraq, the defense of torture and the violation of our basic liberties.
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