impostors

Noun

impostor (plural impostors)

1. Someone who attempts to deceive by using an assumed name or identity.
   • "It were dishonour in me to yield. I will not play the part of an impostor, whom my uncle must despise even while he screens. No; these estates are his right: let him take them; I will not buy them with his daughter's hand."1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Consent”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 153
2. A sprite or animation integrated into a three-dimensional scene to look like part of the 3D world.
3. A term referenced in an unusual grammatical person.
   • Interestingly, Wang shows that Chinese allows the appearance of an indexical pronoun alongside the imposter, as in (31).2014, Daniel Kaufman, “The Syntax of Indonesian Imposters”, in Chris Collins, editor, Cross-Linguistic Studies of Imposters and Pronominal Agreement, →ISBN, page 105