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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who shams; an impostor; a liar; a trickster.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who shams; an impostor.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who shams; a liar

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person who makes deceitful pretenses
  • noun someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity

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