Impostor Edit Meaning

1.

Someone who pretends to be someone else, usually in a serious setting, where the impostor is doing some sort of damage

That surgeon who did Jane's tonsilectomy? Turns out, he was an impostor. He had a real job as an orderly in the hospital, but he was really good at snowingpeople and hacking computer records. They've got him locked upand his two wives are trying to bail him out.

See imposter, con, charlatan, fraud, phony