Word Meanings - IMPOSTUROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Impostrous; deceitful. Strictness fales and impostrous. Beau. & Fl.

Related words: (words related to IMPOSTUROUS)

• STRICTNESS
  Quality or state of being strict.
• DECEITFUL
  Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak.
• IMPOSTROUS
  Characterized by imposture; deceitful. "Impostrous pretense of knowledge." Grote.
• DECEITFULLY
  With intent to deceive.
• DECEITFULNESS
  1. The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual. 2. The quality of being deceitful; as, the deceitfulness of a man's practices. 3. Tendency to mislead or deceive. "The deceitfulness of riches." Matt. xiii. 22.