Noun:

போலியாக நடிப்பவர், பாசாங்குக் காரர்,

pretender's Usage Examples:

of Scotland, whose support of the pretender Perkin Warbeck it was hoped to avert by such an alliance.

He's a pretender, pure and simple.

At the same time he crushed two pretenders to the throne - Firmus and Tetricus.

"' In December k 1609 she planned an escape with Sir George Douglas to Scotland, apparently with a view of arranging a marriage with Stephen Bogdan, pretender to Moldavia, and on the scheme being discovered she was arrested.

the old intriguers, their victims like Mariamne, and all pretenders were dead.

, In the times of the OldKingdom decapitation was in use, and a decree exists of the Middle Kingdom degrading a nomarch of Coptos and his family for ever from his office and from the priesthood on account of services to a rival pretender.

, recognizing that the youthful pretender had been a tool in the hands of others and was in himself harmless, pardoned Lambert Simnel and took him, into his own service in the menial capacity of scullion.

At last the armies of sultan and pretender met at Ulubad (Lopadion) on the Rhyndacus in Asia Minor; Mustafa's troops fled at the first onset; Lampsacus, where the pretender took refuge, was captured with the aid of the Genoese galleys under Adorno.

acknowledged the infant Edward as prince of Wales, and made no attempt to assert dynastic claims during his two regencies in 1454 and 145 5456~ yet the queen and her partisans already looked upon him as a pretender to the throne.

We know from himself that he was the intimate of those who belonged to the circle of the great orator Symmachus - men who scouted Stilicho's compact with the Goths, and led the Roman senate to support the pretenders Eugenius and Attalus in the vain hope of reinstating the gods whom Julian had failed to save.

Politically it increased the power of the nobility at the expense of the crown, every competing pretender naturally endeavouring to win adherents by distributing largesse in the shape of crown-lands.

Synonyms:

cheat, whited sepulchre, smoothie, beguiler, hypocrite, deceiver, sweet talker, charmer, Tartufe, Tartuffe, dissimulator, whited sepulcher, dissembler, slicker, phoney, smoothy, cheater, trickster, phony,

Antonyms:

natural, undercharge, square shooter, genuine,