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

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

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

Politicaster :: Politicaster (n.) A petty politician; a pretender in politics.

Pedant :: Pedant (n.) One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.

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

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..

Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.

Impostor :: Impostor (n.) One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender..

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

Grammaticaster :: Grammaticaster (n.) A petty grammarian; a grammatical pedant or pretender.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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