All masquerader synonyms

noun masquerader

• hypocrite — a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
• trickster — a deceiver; cheat; fraud.
• impostor — a person who practices deception under an assumed character, identity, or name.
• rascal — a base, dishonest, or unscrupulous person.
• con artist — A con artist is someone who tricks other people into giving them their money or property.
• crook — A crook is a dishonest person or a criminal.
• swindler — to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
• rogue — a dishonest, knavish person; scoundrel.
• charlatan — You describe someone as a charlatan when they pretend to have skills or knowledge that they do not really possess.
• bigot — If you describe someone as a bigot, you mean that they are bigoted.
• phony — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
• quack — a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill.
• decoy — If you refer to something or someone as a decoy, you mean that they are intended to attract people's attention and deceive them, for example by leading them into a trap or away from a particular place.
• jockey — a person who rides horses professionally in races.
• bluff — A bluff is an attempt to make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it.
• sharper — something sharp.
• shyster — a lawyer who uses unprofessional or questionable methods.
• deceiver — to mislead by a false appearance or statement; delude: They deceived the enemy by disguising the destroyer as a freighter.
• chiseler — a person who cheats or tricks; swindler.
• defraud — If someone defrauds you, they take something away from you or stop you from getting what belongs to you by means of tricks and lies.
• double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
• fake — to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
• pretender — a person who pretends, especially for a dishonest purpose.
• shark — a person who preys greedily on others, as by cheating or usury.
• scammer — a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
• double-deal — to practice double-dealing.
• dodger — a person who dodges.
• cheat — When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
• faker — anything made to appear otherwise than it actually is; counterfeit: This diamond necklace is a fake.
• hook — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
• actor — An actor is someone whose job is acting in plays or films. 'Actor' in the singular usually refers to a man, but some women who act prefer to be called 'actors' rather than 'actresses'.
• informer — a person who informs against another, especially for money or other reward.
• malingerer — to pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc.
• poser — wannabe, pretentious person
• humbug — something intended to delude or deceive.
• fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
• dissimulate — to disguise or conceal under a false appearance; dissemble: to dissimulate one's true feelings about a rival.
• play-act — to engage in make-believe.
• smoothie — a person who has a winningly polished manner: He's such a smoothie he could charm the stripes off a tiger.
• sophist — (often initial capital letter) Greek History. any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation. a person belonging to this class at a later period who, while professing to teach skill in reasoning, concerned himself with ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument.
• pharisee — a member of a Jewish sect that flourished during the 1st century b.c. and 1st century a.d. and that differed from the Sadducees chiefly in its strict observance of religious ceremonies and practices, adherence to oral laws and traditions, and belief in an afterlife and the coming of a Messiah.
• bluffer — good-naturedly direct, blunt, or frank; heartily outspoken: a big, bluff, generous man.
• backslide — to lapse into bad habits or vices from a state of virtue, religious faith, etc
• dissembler — to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one's incompetence in business.
• four-flusher — a person who makes false or pretentious claims; bluffer.
• two-timer — to be unfaithful to (a lover or spouse).
• casuist — a person, esp a theologian, who attempts to resolve moral dilemmas by the application of general rules and the careful distinction of special cases
• impersonator — a person who pretends to be another.
• sham — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
• imitator — to follow or endeavor to follow as a model or example: to imitate an author's style; to imitate an older brother.