pretender

1. One who puts forth a claim, or who aspires to or aims at something; a claimant, candidate, or aspirant; now, one who makes baseless pretensions.

2. One who puts forth a claim, or who aspires to or aims at something; a claimant, candidate, or aspirant; now, one who makes baseless pretensions.

   A claimant to a throne or the office of a ruler; originally in a neutral sense, but now always applied to a claimant who is held to have no just title.

   Anwärter, Anwärterin

   претенде́нтpretendént, претенде́нткаpretendéntka

   претенде́нтpretendént, претенде́нткаpretendéntka

   a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title)

3. One who pretends or lays claim to something; one who makes a profession, show, or assertion, especially without adequate grounds, falsely, or with intent to deceive; a dissembler, deceiver, charlatan, hypocrite.

4. A person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold.

   Betrüger, Betrügerin, Angeber

   притво́рщикpritvórščik, притво́рщицаpritvórščica, лицеме́рlicemér

   a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives

5. (obsolete, rare)One who intends or purposes.

6. One who puts forth a claim, or who aspires to or aims at something; a claimant, candidate, or aspirant; now, one who makes baseless pretensions.

   (obsolete)One who aspires to the hand of a woman in marriage; a suitor, a wooer.

1. Actors were historically considered untrustworthy pretenders.

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2. They knew how to unmask the prince pretender.

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3. The poet is a pretender. He pretends so completely that he even pretends that the pain he truly feels is pain.

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