pretender

1. A claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title) (synset 110489564)
   is a type of: claimant - someone who claims a benefit or right or title
2. A person who makes deceitful pretenses (synset 110221154)
   is a type of: beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster - someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
   subtypes:

   • name dropper - someone who pretends that famous people are his/her friends
   • ringer - a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses
   same as: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer
3. 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 (synset 110215212)
   is a type of: beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster - someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
   subtypes:

   • charmer, smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker - someone with an assured and ingratiating manner
   • tartufe, tartuffe - a hypocrite who pretends to religious piety (after the protagonist in a play by Moliere)
   • whited sepulcher, whited sepulchre - a person who is inwardly evil but outwardly professes to be virtuous
   same as: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony

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