pretender

• Существительное, обозначающее человека, который делает обманчивые заявления или притворяется, или который professes убеждения или мнения, которых на самом деле не придерживается, чтобы скрыть свои истинные чувства или мотивы.

A noun referring to a person who makes deceitful claims or pretenses, or who professes beliefs or opinions they do not actually hold in order to conceal their true feelings or motives.

1. Deceitful personB2formal

   A person who makes false claims or pretenses, often to deceive others.

   Самозванец

   • The con artist was a pretender who claimed to be a doctor.
   • She saw through his act and knew he was just a pretender.
   • History remembers him as a pretender to the throne.

   Synonymscharlatanfakefraudhumbughypocriteimpostormountebankphonyquack

2. HypocriteB2formal

   A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not actually hold, often to hide their true feelings or motives.

   Лицемер

   • He was a pretender who preached honesty while cheating on his taxes.
   • The politician was exposed as a pretender who only cared about power.
   • She called him a pretender for pretending to support the cause while working against it.

   Synonymscharlatandissemblerfakefraudhumbughypocriteimpostorphoney

   Antonymsgenuinehonestsinceretruthful