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Hypocrite :: Hypocrite (n.) One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming; one who feigns to be other and better than he is; a false pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or piety..

Pansophical :: Pansophical (a.) All-wise; claiming universal knowledge; as, pansophical pretenders..

Coxcomb :: Coxcomb (n.) A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop..

Simular :: Simular (n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who, or that which, simulates or counterfeits something; a pretender..

Pretendant :: Pretendant (n.) A pretender; a claimant.

Psilosopher :: Psilosopher (n.) A superficial or narrow pretender to philosophy; a sham philosopher.

Philosophaster :: Philosophaster (n.) A pretender to philosophy.

Pretender :: Pretender (n.) The pretender (Eng. Hist.), the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law..

Sciolist :: Sciolist (n.) One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer.

Witling :: Witling (n.) A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness.

Philosophist :: Philosophist (n.) A pretender in philosophy.

Ignoramus :: Ignoramus (n.) A stupid, ignorant person; a vain pretender to knowledge; a dunce..

Quack :: Quack (n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.

Pretender :: Pretender (n.) One who pretends, simulates, or feigns..

Pretender :: Pretender (n.) One who lays claim, or asserts a title (to something); a claimant..

Adventurer :: Adventurer (n.) A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.

Quack :: Quack (v. i.) To act the part of a quack, or pretender..

Illuminate :: Illuminate (n.) One who enlightened; esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge..

Pretendership :: Pretendership (n.) The character, right, or claim of a pretender..

Theologaster :: Theologaster (n.) A pretender or quack in theology.

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